By chris273a
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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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
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