MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. This is guide, howto install or upgrade MySQL Community Server latest and greatest version 5.5.31 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9.
Note: If you are upgrading MySQL (from earlier version), then make sure that you backup (dump and copy) your database and configs. And remember run mysql_upgrade command.
Install MySQL Database 5.5.31 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.4/5.9, Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/5.9
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ##
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
## CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
3. Check Available MySQL versions
Fedora 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12
yum--enablerepo=remi list mysql mysql-server
CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9
yum--enablerepo=remi,remi-test list mysql mysql-server
CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9
yum--enablerepo=remi,remi-test install mysql mysql-server
5. Start MySQL server and autostart MySQL on boot
Fedora 18/17/16
systemctl start mysqld.service ## use restart after update
systemctl enable mysqld.service
Fedora 15/14/13/12/11, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9
/etc/init.d/mysqld start ## use restart after update## OR ##
service mysqld start ## use restart after update
chkconfig --levels235 mysqld on
6. MySQL Secure Installation
Set (Change) root password
Remove anonymous users
Disallow root login remotely
Remove test database and access to it
Reload privilege tables
Start MySQL Secure Installation with following command
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
Output:
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!
In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we\'ll need the current
password for the root user. If you\'ve just installed MySQL, and
you haven\'t set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
Enter current password for root (enter for none):
OK, successfully used password, moving on...
Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.
Set root password? [Y/n] Y
New password:
Re-enter new password:
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
... Success!
Cleaning up...
All done! If you\'ve completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.
Thanks for using MySQL!
Note: If you don’t want some reason, do a “MySQL Secure Installation” then at least it’s very important to change the root user’s password
Hey there JR every time i try to start the mysql server i get “Job failed. See system logs and ‘systemctl status’ for details.”
Im running Fedora 16 64Bit, thanks in advanced.
It is good installation process but It did not install dependencies of MySQL ??? Dont understand what to do I am not even getting library files in /usr/include/mysql and /usr/lib/
It is good installation process but It did not install dependencies of MySQL ??? Dont understand what to do I am not even getting library files in /usr/include/mysql and /usr/lib/
I don’t think you should be getting anything in the lib until you’ve done something with mysql. Such as creating a database or at least some users. Also, if you really screwed up a previous installation like I have, yum won’t remove the /var/lib/mysql folder (at least, it didn’t for me).
I used this method to attempt reinstalling it several times over, and it failed each time. If you go and delete it manually as root, and then perform the above steps again, it should work.
i did each step of this tutorial under Fedora 17 KDE (which is in VMWare workstation as guest machine) and i can’t access from my host machine (windows 7) to MySQL database (which is on Fedora).
during the whole installation process i had no error or warning.
Hi, this post is great but my problem is this line
#mysqladmin -u root password my_pass
mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)’
You will need use old root password when you connect to MySQL server, like:
## Password prompt ##
mysqladmin -u root -p password my_new_pass
## Password as a parameter (note: no space between -p and old pass) ##
mysqladmin -u root -pmy_old_pass password my_new_pass
awsm! i was setting my own rackspace centos 5.9 cloud server, and this article really got me over the line with getting my LAMP stack going. great repo! great post!
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. This is guide, howto install or upgrade MySQL Community Server latest and greatest version 5.5.31 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9. 
Hey there JR every time i try to start the mysql server i get “Job failed. See system logs and ‘systemctl status’ for details.”
Im running Fedora 16 64Bit, thanks in advanced.
Hi Random,
Could you post output of following commands (example to http://pastebin.com) after you ty to start mysql-server:
It is good installation process but It did not install dependencies of MySQL ??? Dont understand what to do I am not even getting library files in /usr/include/mysql and /usr/lib/
hi JR,
It is good installation process but It did not install dependencies of MySQL ??? Dont understand what to do I am not even getting library files in /usr/include/mysql and /usr/lib/
Hi Sanjog,
Could you post output of following commmands:
Hey JR Its working fine. now my next task is to connect to mysql database through a C program. If i dont get any thing will come back to you.
Excellent! :) Feel free to ask, if you have any questions.
@Random
Even I had the complaint of Job Failed to start in Fedora 16 (32 bit). I updated systemd using yum (yum update systemd) and the mysql worked.
Thanks a lot Vijay! I spent entire evening trying to figure out the problem but your comment solved my problems :)
again Thanks!
I don’t think you should be getting anything in the lib until you’ve done something with mysql. Such as creating a database or at least some users. Also, if you really screwed up a previous installation like I have, yum won’t remove the /var/lib/mysql folder (at least, it didn’t for me).
I used this method to attempt reinstalling it several times over, and it failed each time. If you go and delete it manually as root, and then perform the above steps again, it should work.
Hi,
i did each step of this tutorial under Fedora 17 KDE (which is in VMWare workstation as guest machine) and i can’t access from my host machine (windows 7) to MySQL database (which is on Fedora).
during the whole installation process i had no error or warning.
so where is the problem ?
thx
Hi alain,
Do you have own ip address on Fedora? And did you used your Windows 7 ip address when you created user and granted permissions?
Thanks a lot
was really helpful updating my server
God Bless
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
failed 404.
Release 6-8 is there though. Hope that works…..
Hi James,
Nice note, thanks! I updated all guides to use latest epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm version. :)
Can u please give step for install Mysql 5.6 ?
Hi Bhavesh,
Not yet, this style guide, but if you want to build MySQL 5.6 yourself, then it’s of course possible to install.
Still i’m getting error
Can’t Connect to mysql on ‘Localhost ip’ (113)
i’m using Cent OS 6.3
Hi Kartik,
Could you post full mysql command and error?
Hi, this post is great but my problem is this line
#mysqladmin -u root password my_pass
mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)’
what is the solution ?
Hi Kürşat,
Do you try to change root password?
You will need use old root password when you connect to MySQL server, like:
when i tipe in the last command the output is the following: error 2003 (HY000) can´t connect to mysql server on ’10.0.15.25′ (110)
plz update to Mysql 5.6 is not GA.
can you tell me how to do it please? because when i use yum update the output says that there are no packages available for update
Hi MB,
This is just example row, you have to use your real ip address, which might be something totally different that 10.0.15.25.
okay thank you :)
okay thank you :)
awsm! i was setting my own rackspace centos 5.9 cloud server, and this article really got me over the line with getting my LAMP stack going. great repo! great post!