How to install MySQL Server 5.

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CentOS 7 / RHEL 7
July 31, 2014 by Sharad Chhetri 42 Comments

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In this tutorial we will learn, how to install MySQL Server 5.6 on CentOS 7
/ RHEL 7 . In our previous post, we have installed MySQL Server 5.6 on
CentOS 6.x/RHEL 7.x.

In CentOS 7/ RHEL 7 , now MariaDB is introduced as a defualt database.

Still many Organisations/Company would like to continue with MySQL.
Whereas System Admin who earlier worked on MySQL can easily work
on MariaDB. MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL
relational database management system.

MariaDB’s lead developer is Michael “Monty” Widenius, the founder of

MySQL and Monty Program AB. He had previously sold his company,
MySQL AB, to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion. MariaDB is named
after Monty’s younger daughter, Maria. (Reference taken from Wikipedia)

Install MySQL Server 5.6 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Follow the given below steps to install MySQL Server 5.6 .
You must be login with root user in system

Download the Yum Repo package of MySQL Server 5.6

Download the rpm package, which will create a yum repo file for MySQL
Server installation.

yum install wget

wget http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
Install mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm package

Install this downloaded rpm package by using rpm command.

rpm -ivh mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm

After the installation of this package. We will get two new yum repo
related to MySQL

[root@localhost ~]# ls -1 /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community*

/etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community-source.repo
[root@localhost ~]#

Installing MySQL Server

By using yum command, now we will install MySQL Server 5.6 . All
dependencies will be installed itself.

yum install mysql-server

How to start/stop/restart MySQL Server

Now MySQL Server is installed on your system.

To start MySQL Service, run command

systemctl start mysqld

To stop MySQL Service, run command

systemctl stop mysqld

To restart MySQL Service, run command

systemctl restart mysqld

To get status of MySQL Service, run command

systemctl status mysqld

Reset MySQL root password

On fresh installation of MySQL Server. The MySQL root user password is
blank.
For good security practice, we should reset the password MySQL root
user.

On newly installed MySQL Server, we generally recommend to use the

command script. You have to just follow the instructions.

mysql_secure_installation

In another method,you can log into MySQL server database and reset the
password in secure way.

mysql -u root

You will see mysql prompt like this mysql> . Use the below given
commands to reset root’s password.

mysql> use mysql;

mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("GIVE-NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD") where
User='root';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit