mysql 5.7.x on Ubuntu 14? (Lamp already installed)

Hi guys!

I’m just facing the same problem, need to upgrade a large mysql installation to 5.7. Everywhere they say that you need to upgrade to 5.6 before. Maybe that isn’t necessary? Thanks:

Andras

Here’s what I did:

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.6.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.6.0-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.7

trevorg and vijayoncomet1’s solution worked for me without any issues, thanks.

I also had to run a mysql_upgrade command to get everything working afterwards (mysqldump was throwing up an error without doing so).

In total, here’s what I did (where ‘root’ is whatever your mysql user is):

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.6.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.6.0-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
mysql_upgrade -u root -p --force

I also needed to restart mysql after doing the above. Here’s how I did so on my machine:

sudo service mysql restart