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. yum install libmysqlclient15 --enablerepo=webtatic
3. yum remove mysql mysql-*
4. yum install mysql55 mysql55-server --enablerepo=webtatic

When I tried the 4th step, I got the following output:

[root@d2005 /]# yum install mysql55 mysql55-server --enablerepo=webtatic
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: yum.singlehop.com
 * extras: centos.mirrors.tds.net
 * updates: pubmirrors.reflected.net
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql55.x86_64 0:5.5.10-1.w5 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: mysql55-libs = 5.5.10-1.w5 for package: mysql55-5.5.10-1.w5.x86_64
---> Package mysql55-server.x86_64 0:5.5.10-1.w5 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl-DBD-MySQL for package: mysql55-server-5.5.10-1.w5.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql55-libs.x86_64 0:5.5.10-1.w5 will be installed
---> Package perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 0:4.013-3.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit) for package: perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit) for package: perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mysql-libs.x86_64 0:5.1.61-1.el6_2.1 will be installed
--> Processing Conflict: mysql55-libs-5.5.10-1.w5.x86_64 conflicts mysql-libs < 5.5.10
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: mysql55-libs conflicts with mysql-libs
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

How to fix it?

Solution 1

To list Old MySql

yum list installed | grep -i mysql

To remove Old MySql

yum remove mysql mysql-*

Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Install MySQL server

yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-test install mysql mysql-server

To list New MySql

yum list installed | grep -i mysql

start MySql server

/etc/init.d/mysqld start ## use restart after update

OR

service mysqld start ## use restart after update

chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on

Last

mysql_upgrade -u root -p

Now my MySql version is 5.5.32

Ref:

http://www.webtatic.com/packages/mysql55/

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-mysql-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

Hope it help some one

NOTE: Adding comments from @pim (in comments)

Just wanted to add that after the upgrade, my crontab was removed as well. Had to reinstall with "yum install vixie-cron" (CentOS 6) 

Solution 2

I used the following commands to add a new YUM repo and make the update:

Download the Remi repo

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi.repo

Install/Update the mysql version

yum --enablerepo=remi install mysql-server

OR

yum --enablerepo=remi update mysql-server

Solution 3

2015/08/19 - For those of you working on older (but still decent) hardware with a matching OS (typically 32 bit machines).

-- This will upgrade to mysql 5.6 community not 5.5 --

This worked for me after some research and mixing/matching/testing the answers found on various page of the internet (mainly from this page and http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/linux-installation-yum-repo.html). My OS shipped with mysql 5.1, I wanted to have 5.6.

My system

[root@host]# cat /etc/*release 
CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
[root@host]# uname -a
Linux host 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 13 19:58:36 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@host]# arch
i686

This is installed on a 2006 mac pro 1.1 (CPUs upgraded to 3.0GHz Intel Xeon X5365 Quad-Core).

Commands I ran

This was done almost immediately after a fresh install of the OS and system update via yum

list mysql currently installed

yum list installed | grep -i mysql

remove installed msql

yum remove mysql mysql-*

list mysql currently installed

yum list installed | grep -i mysql

Download rpm containing mysql 5.6

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm

Install mysql

rpm -Uvh mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm
yum install mysql mysql-server

list mysql currently installed

yum list installed | grep -i mysql

ensure mysql starts on reboot

chkconfig --list mysqld
sudo chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig --list mysqld

Start mysql

service mysqld start
service mysqld status

Result

[root@host]# yum list installed | grep -i mysql
compat-mysql51.i686     5.1.54-1.el6.remi @remi                                 
mysql-community-client.i686
                        5.6.26-2.el6      @mysql56-community                    
mysql-community-common.i686
                        5.6.26-2.el6      @mysql56-community                    
mysql-community-libs.i686
                        5.6.26-2.el6      @mysql56-community                    
mysql-community-release.noarch
mysql-community-server.i686
                        5.6.26-2.el6      @mysql56-community                    
perl-DBD-MySQL.i686     4.013-3.el6       @base


[root@host]# mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.26, for Linux (i686) using  EditLine wrapper

mysql config (I did not touch this yet but the info seems legit)

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-5-6-from-official-yum-repositories

Good luck!

Edit

I had some issues creating users and granting permissions, this how it was fixed.

Error

ERROR 1054 (42S22) at line 1: Unknown column 'plugin' in 'mysql.user'

Fix

1. Logged on the server as root
2. Connected to mysql with a simple mysql
3. Checked the outcome of this statement: SELECT COUNT(1) column_count FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema='mysql' AND table_name='user'; The result was 39, 43 is expected for mysql 5.6
4. Issued this statement to update the root password: update mysql.user set Password=PASSWORD('root') where User='root';
5. (Logged off mysql with exit)
6. Restarted mysql with: service mysqld restart
7. Ran: mysql_upgrade -uroot -proot --force
8. Reconnected to mysql with mysql -uroot -proot
9. Checked the outcome of this statement: SELECT COUNT(1) column_count FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema='mysql' AND table_name='user'; The result was 43 as expected for mysql 5.6. I was then able to create my users and grant permissions as needed.

Solution 4

You appear to have been using the wrong Webtatic Yum repository version than the one for your version of CentOS. See http://www.webtatic.com/projects/yum-repository/ for details

e.g.

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

You can use a yum plugin made by the IUS community to switch mysql-libs with mysql55w-libs. (the following assuming you still use Webtatic)

yum install mysql yum-plugin-replace
yum replace mysql --replace-with mysql55w

That should allow you to replace mysql with mysql55w-libs, whilst maintaining the older libmysqlclient for any dependencies.

If you see other packages than mysql being removed, then be careful, as they might be needed, but using this method, I've found to be reliable whenever I've used it.

I'm posting this solution as Remi's repository is not always the ideal solution. This method is more complex, but would never cause you to accidentally update your entire web stack by using repositories that use package names matching base distribution packages.

Solution 5

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

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Comments

[Drahcir]

No Problem, I had to make the upgrade yesterday and didn't want to uninstall the old version. Uninstalling it via yum prompted me to also uninstall the depending packages like php-mysql and phpMyAdmin, so this way I was able to just update without uninstalling first. Hope it helps someone.

[Toddius Zho]

I'm getting the same problem as the OP. Instead of upgrading mysql-libs to the latest version, it believes mysql55-libs and mysql-libs are unrelated and conflict with one another. If you remove the previous versions of MySQL first, will that zap your datadir, ibdata1, /etc/my.cnf, logs, etc. and/or directory structures in general?

[Dilip Rajkumar]

I forgot for what server I did this... You should take the backup of databases you have also log you have.. I dont think you will have them after you upgrade...

[Toddius Zho]

I am going to try these steps tonight. I will see if yum's replace combined with --replace-with will let me skip yum remove.

[Dilip Rajkumar]

Ok.. if it succeed please add your answer to this question.. that will sure help others...

[paimoe]

Worked great for me after failing with the mysql-libs clash

[tftd]

you should note doing rm -rf /var/lib/mysql WILL remove all databases.

[Dilip Rajkumar]

Thank you Andy, this is old answer, the repo urls could be wrong.. Thank you once again for giving us the correct url..:)

[Toddius Zho]

I had trouble with the libraries again and used yum upgrade mysql55-libs --downloadonly; rpm -e mysql-libs --nodeps; rpm -Uvh /var/cache/yum/<REPO>/mysql55-libs;, where <REPO> is whatever repo you downloaded the package from.

[sactiw]

Edited link download.fedora.redhat.com has been an alias in DNS for link dl.fedoraproject.org and is no more valid. The 'yum' command should install and not just list the package files. Also, added suggestion to look at current mysql installation, if any, before updating it.

[Stony]

Upgrade mysql to 5.5.37, and needn't backup database at all. Just let others guy know.

[dockeryZ]

Worked a treat, but for some reason my phpinfo isn't showing the upgrade, yet phpmyadmin does.

[jesse cai]

Could not retrieve mirrorlist rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/latest/remi/mirror error was 14: PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found" Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: remi

[nodeffect]

I think this is the best answer. It's easy and it works! +1

[Pim]

I was a little hesitant because I was doing this on a live server, but the above instructions work perfectly. I would first add the Remi Dependency and then remove the old MySQL server, saves you a few seconds :) Bottomline: all it took was about 1 minute of downtime, the MySQL data was still present and after the update (from 5.1.73 to 5.5.47), the site ran perfectly again.

[Pim]

Just wanted to add that after the upgrade, my crontab was removed as well. Had to reinstall with "yum install vixie-cron" (CentOS 6)

[Dan Horvat]

No good. The part where you're removing the old mysql removed much more than just mysql. Had to reinstall the server.

[t q]

Now plesk doesnt work! im missing plesk-mysql-server.x86_64 and mysql-connector-odbc.x86_64 was missing, reinstalled it but still on 5.1

[Admin]

Thanks a lot. @Drahcir