Hello, I have been trying to install CloudCoder and I am getting an error when I get to the

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Configuring MySQL....<<<
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The error I am getting is:
Creating cloudcoder user...
mysql: [ERROR] unkown variable 'pass=passwordIChose'
command mysql failed.

I am using the Bootstrap installation and I am running linuxmint.
I am not sure how to fix this. Could it be because I already had mysql installed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

Edit: 4/29/18
I've since tried installing CloudCoder on two different systems all with a fresh installs of Linuxmint. which still gave me the same error.

I then tried these steps:

1. wiped the system clean and installed Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS,
2. used putty to ssh into Ubuntu server
3. Edited the bootstrap.pl file and changed Openjdk-7-jre-headless to Openjdk-8-jre-headless
4. ran through the setup once more

I am still having problems with the error:
mysql: [ERROR] unkown variable 'pass=passwordIChose'