CentOS installing MySQL 5.6.26

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My server is CentOS 6.7 x86_64. I installed mysql by yum -y install mysql-server. But this install v5.1.73.

Installed:
  mysql-server.x86_64 0:5.1.73-5.el6_6

Dependency Installed:
  mysql.x86_64 0:5.1.73-5.el6_6  perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 0:4.013-3.el6
  perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.609-4.el6

How can I install the latest version v5.6.26 as of today.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '15 at 12:27

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Instead of using the CentOS repositories, add the repository of Oracle. Detailed information can be found in this link:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/linux-installation-rpm.html

answered Oct 29 '15 at 12:27

thanasisk

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '15 at 13:53

Here is how I do it:

yum install http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-3/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm
yum install Percona-Server-client-56 Percona-Server-server-56

This yields 5.6.x

$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.26-74.0, for Linux (x86_64) using  6.2

Note that Percona is a highly performant fork of MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement, so everything works just like normal, standard MySQL.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 29 '15 at 12:31

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that is what is in the repository of CentOS, if you want to get the latest version you have to self-compile it from source or use 3rd party repositories. It is not a rocket science!!!!

answered Oct 29 '15 at 12:31

ostendali

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I wouldn't recommand compiling when rpm packages are available on the editor website. – Pierre-Alain TORET Oct 29 '15 at 13:53

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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CentOS and Red Hat now have a repository called "Software Collections". You can install MySQL 5.6 by following the instructions here and substituting rh-mysql56 in the second command.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered May 10 '16 at 19:23

Liczyrzepa

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CentOS installing MySQL 5.6.26

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