mysql: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After installing MySQL on Ubuntu server, I was getting the subject error. I tried to download the file as per this page but after trying that, I still got the exact same error.

What fixed it was going into /usr/lib and linking to the file in /usr/lib64,
cd /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15

then mysql worked!

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