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Installing MariaDB with yum

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Contents

  1. Adding the MariaDB YUM Repository
  2. Installing MariaDB with YUM
    1. Installing TokuDB with YUM
  3. Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster with YUM
    1. Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster on Fedora 17 and 18
  4. After Installation
  5. Manually Importing the MariaDB Signing Key

For CentOS, RedHat, and Fedora, it is highly recommended to install from a repository using yum. This page walks you through the simple steps.

Adding the MariaDB YUM Repository

We have YUM repositories for several YUM-based Linux distributions. To easily generate the appropriate MariaDB.repo entry for your distribution, use our online repository generator.

We currently have YUM repositories for CentOS 5, CentOS 6, RHEL 5, RHEL 6, Fedora 16, and Fedora 17.

Once you have your MariaDB.repo entry, add it to a file under /etc/yum.repos.d/. (We suggest something like /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo.)

An example MariaDB.repo file for CentOS 6 64 bits is:

[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.0/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

The example file above includes a gpgkey line to automatically fetch the GPG key we use to sign the repositories. This key enables yum and rpm to verify the integrity of the packages it downloads.

The id of our signing key is 0xcbcb082a1bb943db. The short form of the id is 0x1BB943DB and the full key fingerprint is:

1993 69E5 404B D5FC 7D2F E43B CBCB 082A 1BB9 43DB

Installing MariaDB with YUM

With the repo file in place you can now install MariaDB like so:

sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

If you don't have the MariaDB GPG Signing key installed, YUM will prompt you to install it after downloading the packages (but before installing them).

If the server already has the MariaDB-Galera-server package installed, you might need to remove it prior to installing MariaDB-server (with 'sudo yum remove MariaDB-Galera-server'). No databases are removed when the MariaDB-Galera-server rpm package is removed, but as with any upgrade, it is best to have backups.

Installing TokuDB with YUM

Instructions for installing TokuDB are on the How to Enable TokuDB in MariaDB page.

Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster with YUM

The instructions for installing MariaDB Galera Cluster are virtually the same as for installing MariaDB. The setup of the repo file is the same. The only difference is in the install step. Instead of installing the MariaDB-server package, you install the MariaDB-Galera-server and galera packages, like so:

sudo yum install MariaDB-Galera-server MariaDB-client galera

As with MariaDB-server, if you don't have the MariaDB GPG Signing key installed, YUM will prompt you to install it after downloading the packages (but before installing them).

If the server already has the MariaDB-server package installed, you might need to remove it prior to installing MariaDB-Galera-server (with 'sudo yum remove MariaDB-server'). No databases are removed when the MariaDB-server rpm package is removed, but as with any upgrade, it is best to have backups.

See the Galera section of the Knowledgebase for more information on MariaDB Galera Cluster.

Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster on Fedora 17 and 18

The instructions in this section have worked for some users, but they don't work for others. For now it is not recommended to use Galera on Fedora 17 & 18

The galera package is incompatible with yum on Fedora 17 & 18, so to install MariaDB Galera Cluster you need to first install the galera package manually using the rpm command.

On 64-bit systems, do:

curl -O http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5.33a/fedora18-amd64/rpms/galera-23.2.7-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh galera-23.2.7-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm

On 32-bit systems, do:

curl -O http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5.33a/fedora18-x86/rpms/galera-23.2.7-1.fc18.i686.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh galera-23.2.7-1.fc18.i686.rpm

Then install MariaDB Galera Server with:

sudo yum clean all # do this to prevent a warning
sudo yum install MariaDB-Galera-server MariaDB-client

To install MariaDB Galera Cluster on Fedora 19, follow the regular instructions, above.

After Installation

After the installation completes, start MariaDB with:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Manually Importing the MariaDB Signing Key

If you like, you can manually install the GPG key using the rpm application like so:

sudo rpm --import https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB

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