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Can't install mysql on CentOS 7

Posted on July 12, 2014

It just says no package mysql-server available. I’ve tried every tutorial, egel and whatnot installed. It’s not on the list of things that are not supposed to be installed. Is there a way to force install it from somewhere that’s not from the fastest mirrors so I can see if the mirrors just aren’t working?

edit - I can install mysql-devel, just not anything else.

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Jon Pugh

September 20, 2014

Don’t forget to set it up as a service. This is from the tutorial @Omar posted.

sudo yum -y install mariadb-server mariadb
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

Once you do that, you should be able to run the mysql command and it will just let you in.

[vagrant@default ~]$ mysql
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 2
Server version: 5.5.37-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle, Monty Program Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

So… you’ll probably want to secure it:

mysql_secure_installation

bsgeorgein

March 31, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdImyRaE9Q

donewbie

January 20, 2015

MariaDB is shipped in the CentOS repo as of CentOS 7 instead of mysql. if you still want to install mysql you need to add mysql rpm dependency into your yum repo.

check this tutorial out of how to install mysql 5.6 in CentOS7 :

How to install latest mysql 5.6 on CentOS7

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