Installing MySQL 5.7 on CentOS 6/RedHat EL 6/Fedora with Yum

1. Install MySQL yum repository

Head over here and get the url for yum repo to be deployed in your server: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/

Copy the download link:

Now that you have the download link, wget get the repo rpm and check file checksum to make sure that rpm is downloaded with out errors. Make a note of checksum from first picture above (Checksum validation is optional)

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-7.noarch.rpm

md5sum mysql57-community-release-el6-7.noarch.rpm 

rpm -ivh mysql57-community-release-el6-7.noarch.rpm

2. Install MySQL 5.7 Server and client libraries

Now that you have installed mysql 5.7 yum repo, you can start install mysql server and client libraries.

yum install -y mysql-community-client mysql-community-server

3. Start MySQL 5.7 Server and connect to it !

Start MySQL 5.7 service

service mysqld start

And find initial mysql 5.7 root password from log file

grep -i temporary /var/log/mysqld.log

Login into MySQL 5.7 using password you got from temporary password that you searched from above

mysql -uroot -p

Only command MySQL 5.7 is going to let you run once you login with your default password is password command

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('Yourpassword1!');

That’s it, you have successfully installed MySQL 5.7 server on CentOS 6/Redhat EL6/Fedora. Open some firewall rules if needed and create users to access your database.