Update MySQL version from 5.1 to 5.5 in CentOS 6.2

Question

I tried to update MySQL from 5.1 to 5.5 in CentOS 6.2. The following is the process I did:

1. rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm
2. yu         


        

Answer 1

Above replies didn't work for me (got this error - error: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.tyukGy: not an rpm package).

I followed these steps -

## Remove existing/old MySQL ##
yum remove mysql mysql-*
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
rm -rf /var/log/mysql*

## Install Remi Repository on RHEL/CentOS 6.7-6.0 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm 

## Install Remi Repository on RHEL/CentOS 5.4-5.0 ##
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

yum --enablerepo=remi list mysql mysql-server
yum --enablerepo=remi install mysql mysql-server

Taken from - http://www.tecmint.com/install-mysql-on-rhel-centos-6-5-fedora-17-12/

By doing above, i uninstalled MySQL 5.0.* and replaced it with this -

[root@localhost]# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p version
/usr/bin/mysqladmin  Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.5.28, for Linux on x86_64
Copyright (c) 2000, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Server version      5.5.28
Protocol version    10
Connection      Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket     /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime:         32 sec

Threads: 1  Questions: 3  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 33  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 26  Queries per second avg: 0.093
[root@localhost]# 

My CentOS version -

[root@localhost]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
[root@localhost]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 23:43:09 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux