While updating my class image to Fedora 27, I noticed that it
installed the Akonadi Server. The documentation on the
Akonadi server lacked some straightforward documentation. It also
offered a bundled set of software that limited how to approach
MySQL development.
So, I removed all those packages with the following syntax:
dnf remove `rpm -qa | grep akonadi`
After removing those Akonadi packages, I installed the
MySQL Community Edition from the Fedora repo with this syntax:
yum install -y community-mysql*
Having installed MySQL Community Edition, I started the service
with this command:
sudo service mysql start
Then, I ran the mysql_secure_installation script to secure the
installation:
mysql_secure_installation
The script set the root user’s password, remove the
anonymous user, disallow remote root login, and …
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