The proper upgrade path from MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 10.0 is as follows:
1. MySQL 5.1
2. MariaDB 5.5
3. MariaDB 10.0
First, you’ll follow a simple best practice: ensuring the list of available packages is up to date before installing anything new:
yum -y update
Then disable the MariaDB 5.5 repo:
mv /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB55.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB55.repo.disabled
Now find which repo you should use with the MariaDB repository generator. We’re going to add the CentOS 6 (64 bit) MariaDB 10.0 repository.
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB10.repo
# MariaDB 10.0 CentOS repository list – created 2014-10-10 17:33 UTC
# http://mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.0/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
Then exit and save the file with the command :wq .
Step #3: Add the EPEL Repository
MariaDB may have dependencies such as socat that are apart of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution. To install the EPEL repository:
rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Stop MariaDB:
service mysql stop
Remove the existing MariaDB packages:
yum -y remove mysql-server mysql-client
Clean-up the repository cache information with the following command:
yum clean all
Step #5: Install MariaDB 10.0
At this point, installing MariaDB 10.0 is as simple as running just one command:
yum -y install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
And then start MariaDB again:
service mysql start
Be sure that MariaDB is set to start at boot:
chkconfig mysql on
Run mysql_upgrade:
mysql_upgrade
Verify MySQL is now MariaDB by using the command client:
mysql
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 13
Server version: 10.0.14-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle, SkySQL Ab and others.
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.
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