how to install mysql 5.6| yum install mysql 5.6

How to Install MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 7 by using yum command? yum install MySQL 5.6 server ,follow the given below steps.
step1: download the yum repository rpm package.

1. yum install http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm

step2: Check the MySQL 5.6 RPM package is available，using yum repolist enabled command. as follows:

1. [root@VM_230_32_centos ~]# sudo yum repolist enabled | grep "mysql.*-community.*"
2. Repository epel is listed more than once in the configuration
3. mysql-connectors-community/x86_64 MySQL Connectors Community                  42
4. mysql-tools-community/x86_64      MySQL Tools Community                       53
5. mysql56-community/x86_64          MySQL 5.6 Community Server                 361

step3: Now, you can type in the following commands to install MySQL 5.6.

1. yum install mysql-community-server

output: it's success!

1. .......
2. Replaced:
3.   mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.52-1.el7                                                                                                                                                                                           
4. Complete!
5. [root@VM_230_32_centos ~]#

step4: Start MySQL 5.6 using the following command:

1. //on centos 7.x
2. systemctl start mysqld
3. systemctl restart mysqld
4. systemctl stop mysqld
5. 
   
6. //on centos 6.x
7. service mysqld start
8. service mysqld restart
9. service mysqld stop

step5: Login into mysql server. Because it is freshly installed hence root password is blank(MySQL 5.7 server initial password is not empty)

1. //login
2. [root@VM_219_180_centos ~]# mysql -uroot -p
3. //you could reset mysql server password, as follows.
4. mysql> set password for root@localhost = password('123456');

thanks!