24/9/2019 How To Install MySQL 8.

0 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 & Fedora 30/29 – TecAdmin

How To Install MySQL 8.0 on

CentOS/RHEL 7/6 & Fedora 30/29
Written by Rahul, Updated on June 26, 2019

General Articles database, mysql, MySQL 8, MySQL 8.0

MySQL 8 is the latest version available for the

installation. MySQL is a most popular database server
for Linux systems, it also supports a large number of
platforms. This tutorial will help you to Install MySQL
Server 8.0 Community Edition on CentOS/RHEL 7/6,
Fedora 30/29/28 using the package manager.

Step 1 – Setup Yum Repository

First, you need to enable MySQL yum repository in your
system provided by MySQL. Execute one of below
command as per your operating system version.

### On CentOS/RHEL 7 system ###

rpm -Uvh https://repo.mysql.com/mysql80-community

### On CentOS/RHEL 6 system ###

rpm -Uvh https://repo.mysql.com/mysql80-community

### On Fedora 30 system ###

rpm -Uvh https://repo.mysql.com/mysql80-community

### On Fedora 29 system ###

rpm -Uvh https://repo.mysql.com/mysql80-community

### On Fedora 28 system ###

rpm -Uvh https://repo.mysql.com/mysql80-community

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Step 2 – Install MySQL Community

Server
The MySQL yum repository contains multiple
repositories configuration for multiple MySQL versions.
So first disable all repositories in mysql repo file.

sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/

Then execute one of the followings commands as per

your operating system to install MySQL.

yum --enablerepo=mysql80-community install mysql

dnf --enablerepo=mysql80-community install mysql

Step 3 – Start MySQL Service

Start the MySQL server using the following command
from Linux terminal.

Using SysVinit

service mysqld start

Using Systemd

systemctl start mysqld.service

Step 4 – Find default root

Password
With the installation of MySQL 8.0, a temporary
password is created for the MySQL root user. You can
find the temporary password generated in log files.

grep "A temporary password" /var/log/mysqld.log

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Output:

[Note] A temporary password is generated for root

Step 5 – MySQL Post Install Setup

After installing MySQL first time,
execute mysql_secure_installation command
to secure MySQL server. It will prompt for few
question’s, we recommended to say yes ( y ) for each.

mysql_secure_installation

Enter password for user root:

The existing password for the user account root h

New password:
Re-enter new password:

Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any o

Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes

Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y

Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes,

Step 6 – Restart and Enable

MySQL Service
The MySQL installation has been successfully
completed. Now restart the service and setup autostart
on system bootup.

### Using SysVinit

service mysqld restart
chkconfig mysqld on

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### Using Systemd

systemctl restart mysqld.service
systemctl enable mysqld.service

Step 7 – Working with MySQL

Now connect mysql database server Linux shell using
below command. It will prompt for the password for
authentication. On successful login, you will get the
MySQL command prompt, where we can execute SQL
queries.

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

After login, You can use following commands to create

a new database, create a user and assign privileges to
the user on the database. Change values as per your
requirements.

### CREATE DATABASE

mysql> CREATE DATABASE mydb;

### CREATE USER ACCOUNT

mysql> CREATE USER 'dbuser'@'192.168.10.101' ID

### GRANT PERMISSIONS ON DATABASE

mysql> GRANT ALL ON mydb.* TO 'dbuser'@'192.168

### RELOAD PRIVILEGES

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Congratulation’s! you have successfully installed

MySQL server on your system. Use below quick links
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