Okay, I will admit that I grew up professionally without package management. Well, we did have SSCS and RCS under Unix and a lot of very brilliant shells scripts but nothing modern programmers would deign to touch. Then came Linux Torvalds (and why hasn't he been given a Nobel prize?!?!) and I blundered into the Redhat world with their RPM package manager. RPMS are great but over time I was seduced by Ubuntu and became and became an apt-get fiend.
Now I need to do a demo of the new MySQL 5.7.12 Document store features on an RPM based distro, Oracle 7.1. I could have used a Vagrant or Docker image but ended up using VirtualBox. You can even use a fresh install on hardware even though that seems to be becoming passe in a virtual & containerized world. So if you are following along please adjust to your platform.
After installing the latest and greatest Virtualbox from VirtualBox.org, I pulled the ISO image from …
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