Comment 4 for bug 1694570

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Ranjeet R (rranjeet-n) wrote :

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-install-db.html

In Ubuntu 16.04, MySQL version is 5.7 where mysql_install_db is deprecated and the functionality has been integrated into mysqld itself. To initialize a MySQL installation, call "mysqld --initialize". Note that having an existing /var/lib/mysql directory will fail the initialization.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-install-db.html has the steps.