I couldn’t get the various instructions using the MySQL community repo to work, so if you’re in the same boat try this:
Get the 5.6 bundle from mysql.com:
wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-5.6.50-1.el7.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar
Install some requirements:
dnf -y install libaio ncurses-compat-libs
Unpack and install MySQL:
tar -xvf MySQL-5.6.50-1.el7.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tarrpm -Uhv MySQL-server-5.6.50-1.el7.x86_64.rpm MySQL-client-5.6.50-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Then start it off:
systemctl start mysqlsystemctl enable mysql
Please also tell us how to remove mysql
Great tutorial. Thank you so much
I had tried these commands on Rocky 8 (after first removing ALL files pertaining to mysql). I then got an error when trying to start the service, so I ran journalctl -xe which gave me the following error:
mysql[3777]: Logging to ‘/var/log/mysql/mysqld.log’.
mysql[3761]: ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid).
I realized the /var/run/mysqld directory did not exist so I created it and chown’d it with the user/group of mysql:mysql. This then allowed me to start the service on Rocky 8 successfully.