MySQL 5.5 — Software Collections

mysql55 - A stable release of MySQL. This version provides a number of new features and enhancements, including improved performance. This Software Collection gives users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 an alternative to MariaDB, which is binary compatible with MySQL in version 5.5.

This collection is EOL since Oct 2016.

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Instructions

You can get started in three easy steps:

# 1. Install a package with repository for your system:
# On CentOS, install package centos-release-scl available in CentOS repository:
$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl

# On RHEL, enable RHSCL repository for you system:
$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

# 2. Install the collection:
$ sudo yum install mysql55

# 3. Start using the software collection:
$ scl enable mysql55 bash

At this point you should be able to use MySQL just as a normal application. Some examples of new available commands follow:

$ service mysql55-mysqld start
$ mysql

In order to view the individual components included in this collection, including additional subpackages plugins, you can run:

$ sudo yum list mysql55\*

MySQL Software Collection as Docker Formatted Container

On CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 you can pull the image with the following command:

$ docker pull openshift3/mysql-55-rhel7

For more on the docker image follow the link to public source repository: https://github.com/sclorg/mysql-container

Policy

Community Project: Maintained by upstream communities of developers. The software is cared for, but the developers make no commitments to update the repositories in a timely manner.

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This collection provides packages, which may be required by some package from these collections:

Yum Repositories Dec. 15, 2014, 2:32 p.m.

Operating system	Package with repo	Browse files
CentOS 6	yum install centos-release-scl-rh	x86_64
CentOS 7	yum install centos-release-scl-rh	x86_64
RHEL 6	yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms
RHEL 7	yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

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