Today we are going to go through the process of installing MySQL Server Community Edition on Fedora 20. You could of course simply use MariaDB, but this will focus on the Community Edition.

Install the MySQL Repository

We will need to install the MySQL Community Repository, the MySQL project hosts an RPM file with the repository. First lets look at the repositories that I have already.

# yum repolistLoaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekitrepo id repo name statusadobe-flashplayer Adobe Flash Player - x86_ 2fedora/20/x86_ Fedora 20 - x86_ 38,597google-chrome Google Chrome - x86_ 3oracle-virtualbox/20/x86_ Oracle VirtualBox - x86_ 10rpmfusion-free/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free 468rpmfusion-free-updates/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free - Updates 4rpmfusion-nonfree/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree 203rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree - Updates 299updates/20/x86_ Fedora 20 - x86_ - Updates 17,616repolist: 57,662

Now lets install the release file. Keep in mind, you can do a separate wget or curl to download the file, or you can use the command as I have. As of the time of this writing there are also repositories for Fedora 18 and 19 and Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 (beta). Though the only procedures I have validated are the Fedora 20, they should all work the same.

# yum localinstall http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-community-release-fc20-5.noarch.rpm

Now lets compare our new repositories to our old and we will see it has added 3 repositories, mysql56-community, mysql-tools-community and mysql-connectors-community

# yum repolistLoaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekitrepo id repo name statusadobe-flashplayer Adobe Flash Player - x86_ 2fedora/20/x86_ Fedora 20 - x86_ 38,597google-chrome Google Chrome - x86_ 3mysql-connectors-community/20/x86_ MySQL Connectors Community 14mysql-tools-community/20/x86_ MySQL Tools Community 8mysql56-community/20/x86_ MySQL 5.6 Community Server 57oracle-virtualbox/20/x86_ Oracle VirtualBox - x86_ 10rpmfusion-free/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free 468rpmfusion-free-updates/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free - Updates 4rpmfusion-nonfree/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree 203rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/20/x86_ RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree - Updates 299updates/20/x86_ Fedora 20 - x86_ - Updates 17,616repolist: 57,741

Install MySQL Server Community

Now that we have the repository we can use yum list to determine what version is available.

# yum list mysql-community-serverLoaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekitAvailable Packagesmysql-community-server.x86_ 5.6.19-1.fc20 mysql56-community

Then we can do a yum install to actually perform the install.

# yum install mysql-community-server

Enable the MySQL Server Software

Now we will set the mysqld service to start on reboot.

# systemctl enable mysqldln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/mysql.service'ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mysqld.service'

Now manually start the mysqld service. For a development environment, I also added bind-address=127.0.0.1 to /etc/my.cnf under the [mysqld] section.

# service mysqld startRedirecting to /bin/systemctl start mysqld.service

Install MySQL Workbench Community

Now that we have the repository enabled we can also install additional software such as MySQL Workbench.

# yum install mysql-workbench