Connecting to Mysql on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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I am relatively new LAMP dev who is trying to learn Linux primarily through AWS. I have a live Elastic Beanstalk instance up and running and I'm trying to start mysql so I can at least work with it at the command line but I am getting:

    bash: /usr/bin/mysql_install_db: No such file or directory

 when I try to run that command. Like I said I am relatively new to working at the command line and have usually worked with MySQL either with PHPMyAdmin or through the WAMP command line. 

My understanding is an Elastic Beanstalk instance should have mysqld and httpd pre-installed on the ec2 instance I'm running it on. So my question is, how do I access it? I understand that more than likely with any live application, I will have a separate EBS volume running my MySQL or an RDS, but right now, I'm still using the AWS Free Tier, so I don't want to run any products I'll have to start paying for. I'm just trying to learn how to work with MySQL in a Linux environment. Any help would be appreciated. Thx