Not able to install MySQL server on CentOS 6.6

Question

I tried this following command

[root@n yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep mysql  
mysql-libs-5.1.73-3.el6_5.x86_64  
mysql-community-release-fc21-5.noarch  
[root@n yum.repos.d]# 

But I give followed command

[root@n yum.repos.d]# yum remove mysql   
Setting up Remove Process   
No Match for argument: mysql       
Package(s) mysql available, but not installed.      
No Packages marked for removal        
[root@n yum.repos.d]#

I tried to install mysql but it showing following error

[root@n yum.repos.d]# rpm -ivh http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el5-5.noarch.rpm   
Retrieving http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el5-5.noarch.rpm  
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]  
        package mysql-community-release-fc21-5.noarch (which is newer than   mysql-community-release-el5-5.noarch) is already installed  
        file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql from install of mysql-community-release-el5-5.noarch conflicts with file from package mysql-community-release-fc21-5.noarch    
        file /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community-source.repo from install of mysql-community-release-el5-5.noarch conflicts with file from package mysql-community-release-fc21-5.noarch     
        file /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community.repo from install of mysql- community-release-el5-5.noarch conflicts with file from package mysql- community-release-fc21-5.noarch 

[root@n yum.repos.d]# dir  
CentOS-Base.repo       CentOS-Vault.repo  
CentOS-Debuginfo.repo  epel.repo  
CentOS-fasttrack.repo  epel-testing.repo  
CentOS-Media.repo      mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm  
[root@n yum.repos.d]#  

Can any one help to solve this problem ?

Solution

You shouldn't have installed mysql-community-release-fc21-5.noarch in the first place. That RPM is clearly labelled that it's for fedora core 21.

yum erase mysql-community-release-fc21-5.noarch.

Next you're trying to install mysql-community-release-el5-5.noarch.rpm. Do that and you're back to where you started, with a slightly different error message. That RPM is clearly labelled that it's for el5 (CentOS 5.x RHEL 5.x).

As the official documentation clearly says, you need to download the one marked el6.

For an EL6-based system, the command is in the form of:

shell> sudo yum localinstall mysql-community-release-el6-{version-number}.noarch.rpm  

Comments

[MadHatter]

How about yum remove mysql-community-release?

[jscott]

It seems you've a Fedora Core package installed (fc21-5) rather than the Enterprise Linux version. Did you follow a guide which had you install via rpm?

[user2170469]

Thanks Yoonix, I coluld solve the problem by using these way and intalled the MySQL Community Server 5.6.24 successfully.