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Setting up LAMP in Centos 7

  • Posted July 16, 2014

Yum repositories seems to have some issues. Just deployed a droplet and as soon as I go ‘yum install mysql-server’ it gives me ‘No package mysql-server available.’

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Andrew SB • July 16, 2014

CentOS 7 (as well as RHEL 7) does not include MySQL. It instead ships MariaDB which a drop in replacement. You can install it with:

sudo yum install mariadb-server mariadb