How to Install MySQL Community Server 8 on CentOS 7

MySQL Community Server is a free and open source version of MySQL Database management System. It is widely used for database management in LAMP stack like servers and used in web applications to store and retrieve data from database.

This article describes How to Install MySQL Community Server 8 on CentOS7.

Step 1. Setup MySQL Repository: Run the following command to setup MySQL official repository:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum install -y https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el7-3.noarch.rpm Loaded plugins: fastestmirror …………………… Installed:   mysql80-community-release.noarch 0:el7-3 Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Step 2. MySQL Packages Installation: Run the following command to install MySQL Community Server and it’s dependencies from MySQL official repository:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum install mysql-community-server -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror ……………………. Installed:   mysql-community-libs.x86_64 0:8.0.18-1.el7          mysql-community-libs-compat.x86_64 0:8.0.18-1.el7          mysql-community-server.x86_64 0:8.0.18-1.el7 Dependency Installed:   mysql-community-client.x86_64 0:8.0.18-1.el7           mysql-community-common.x86_64 0:8.0.18-1.el7 …………………….   perl-podlators.noarch 0:2.5.1-3.el7                    perl-threads.x86_64 0:1.87-4.el7                       perl-threads-shared.x86_64 0:1.43-6.el7 Replaced:   mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.64-1.el7 Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Step 3. Start MySQL Service: Run the following commands to start the MySQL Server and enable services to auto start on reboot:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# systemctl enable mysqld; systemctl start mysqld [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Step 4. Get Temporary Password: Run the following command to grep temporary password from MySQL Log file /var/log/mysqld.log

[root@linuxcnf ~]# cat /var/log/mysqld.log |grep password 2019-11-28T18:08:16.472219Z 5 [Note] [MY-010454] [Server] A temporary password is generated for root@localhost: zYjxUs2cyE(# [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Step 5. Verify the installation: Run the following command to check installation by check installed version of MySQL Server:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# mysql --version mysql  Ver 8.0.18 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL) [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Done!!! MySQL Community Server 8 is installed successfully and ready for use: