Have you ever tried to install Xtrabackup on Amazon EC2 instance
with Oracle’s MySQL 5.6? Dependencies hell strikes when you ask
pretty common and reasonable thing – run the GA version of MySQL
and backup it with the most popular open-source tool –
XtraBackup. From this post you will learn how to resolve the
conflicts and make everybody happy.
mysql55-libs conflicts with mysql-community-libs-5.6.22
A fresh Amazon Linux AMI, 2014.09 EC2 instance comes with MySQL
5.5.40 in amzn-updates repository. Today MySQL 5.5 turns five
years old. It’s a good and stable version. But many people want
to run MySQL 5.6, because it’s better than 5.5, it supports
full-text indexes and Oracle ends support of 5.5 this year.
Oracle distributes MySQL releases via YUM
repository. Installing MySQL from the YUM repository is a
good idea because YUM takes care of …
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