In case you missed the announcement Monday, there are now
official yum
repositories for Fedora 18, 19 and Enterprise Linux 6 (Red
Hat and Oracle Linux).
In my case however, I often use Amazon Web Services, and I find
that Amazon Linux is just a little bit friendlier to
use, since it has better mirror configuration out of the box.
The good news for me is that the official MySQL yum repositories
(unofficially) work just fine. Here is an example installation:
sudo yum localinstall http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el6-3.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install mysql-community-server
sudo service mysqld start
Configure mysqld to start on boot:
sudo chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig --list mysqld
And that’s it, you’re all set up and running. One thing I …
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