After running into the following errors (relatively common, from what I can tell), this was the correct resolution to my issue.
Errors this resolved:
error 2002 (hy000): can't connect to local mysql server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
mysql_install_db is deprecated. Please consider switching to mysqld --initialize
-bash: mysql_install_db --verbose --user=root --basedir=/usr/local/opt/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp: No such file or directory
After running into the following errors (relatively common, from what I can tell), this was the correct resolution to my issue.
Errors this resolved:
error 2002 (hy000): can't connect to local mysql server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' mysql_install_db is deprecated. Please consider switching to mysqld --initialize -bash: mysql_install_db --verbose --user=root --basedir=/usr/local/opt/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp: No such file or directory