Mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed on pulling a site from wpengine to local

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Hi,

I am getting the error shown in the attached screenshot on pulling a site from wp engine. I have installed the Local application on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

Please help.

Screenshot from 2020-07-07 18-56-06
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Also experiencing this issue on OSX

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In my case it was due to OSX not being updated in a while.