1. Adding the MySQL Yum Repository

   First, add the MySQL Yum repository to your system's
   repository list. Follow these steps:

   1. Go to the download page for MySQL Yum repository at
      https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/.

   2. Select and download the release package for your
      platform.

   3. Install the downloaded release package with the
      following command, replacing
      platform-and-version-specific-package-name
      with the name of the downloaded package:

      
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      shell> sudo rpm -Uvh platform-and-version-specific-package-name.rpm

      For example, for version n of
      the package for EL6-based systems, the command is:

      
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      shell> sudo rpm -Uvh mysql80-community-release-el6-n.noarch.rpm

   Note

   Once the release package is installed on your system, any
   system-wide update by the yum update
   command (or dnf upgrade for dnf-enabled
   systems) will automatically upgrade MySQL packages on your
   system and also replace any native third-party packages, if
   Yum finds replacements for them in the MySQL Yum repository.
   See Upgrading MySQL with the MySQL Yum Repository and
   Replacing a Native Third-Party Distribution of MySQL for details.

2. Selecting a Release Series

   When using the MySQL Yum repository, the latest GA release of
   MySQL is selected for installation by default. If this is what
   you want, you can skip to the next step,
   Installing MySQL with Yum.

   Within the MySQL Yum repository
   (https://repo.mysql.com/yum/),
   different release series of the MySQL Community Server are
   hosted in different subrepositories. The subrepository for the
   latest GA series (currently MySQL 8.0)

         is enabled by default, and the subrepositories for all other
   
         series (for example, the MySQL 5.7 series) are
   
         disabled by default. Use this command to see all the
   
         subrepositories in the MySQL Yum repository, and see which of
   
         them are enabled or disabled (for dnf-enabled systems, replace
   
         <span class="command"><strong>yum</strong></span> in the command with
   
         <span class="command"><strong>dnf</strong></span>):
   
   

   
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   shell> yum repolist all | grep mysql

   To install the latest release from the latest GA series, no
   configuration is needed. To install the latest release from a
   specific series other than the latest GA series, disable the
   subrepository for the latest GA series and enable the
   subrepository for the specific series before running the
   installation command. If your platform supports the
   yum-config-manager or dnf
   config-manager command, you can do that by issuing,
   for example, the following commands, which disable the
   subrepository for the 8.0 series and enable the
   one for the 5.7 series; for platforms that are
   not dnf-enabled:

   
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   shell> sudo yum-config-manager --disable mysql80-community
   
   shell> sudo yum-config-manager --enable mysql57-community

   For dnf-enabled platforms:

   
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   shell> sudo dnf config-manager --disable mysql80-community
   
   shell> sudo dnf config-manager --enable mysql57-community

   Besides using yum-config-manager or the
   dnf config-manager command, you can also
   select a series by editing manually the
   /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community.repo
   file. This is a typical entry for a release series'
   subrepository in the file:

   
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   [mysql80-community]
   
   name=MySQL 8.0 Community Server
   
   baseurl=http://repo.mysql.com/yum/mysql-8.0-community/el/6/$basearch/
   
   enabled=1
   
   gpgcheck=1
   
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql

         Find the entry for the subrepository you want to configure,
   
         and edit the <code class="option">enabled</code> option. Specify
   
         <code class="option">enabled=0</code> to disable a subrepository, or
   
         <code class="option">enabled=1</code> to enable a subrepository. For
   
         example, to install MySQL 5.7, make sure you
   
         have <code class="option">enabled=0</code> for the above subrepository
   
         entry for MySQL 8.0, and have
   
         <code class="option">enabled=1</code> for the entry for the
   
         5.7 series:
   
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   [mysql57-community]
   
   name=MySQL 5.7 Community Server
   
   baseurl=http://repo.mysql.com/yum/mysql-5.7-community/el/6/$basearch/
   
   enabled=1
   
   gpgcheck=1
   
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql

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shell> yum repolist enabled | grep mysql