Yum Install MariaDb

MariaDB is a forward fork of MySQL. It has more features and is compatible with all versions of it. It can also be a direct replacement of your current one, is faster and has faster release cycles. If you are looking to install it on your Fedora, CentOS or RHEL deployment, you have come to the right place.

Below are the yum repositories for it.


RHEL Repositories

RHEL 5.x 64-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/rhel5-amd64
gpgcheck=1

RHEL 5.x 32-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/rhel5-x86
gpgcheck=1

RHEL 6.x 64-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/rhel6-amd64
gpgcheck=1

RHEL 6.x 32-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/rhel6-x86
gpgcheck=1

CENTOS Repositories

CENTOS 5.x 64-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos5-amd64
gpgcheck=1

CENTOS 5.x 32-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos5-x86
gpgcheck=1

CENTOS 6.x 64-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64
gpgcheck=1

CENTOS 6.x 32-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-x86
gpgcheck=1

FEDORA Repositories

FEDORA 16.x 64-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/fedora16-amd64
gpgcheck=1

FEDORA 16.x 32-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/fedora16-x86
gpgcheck=1

FEDORA 17.x 64-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/fedora17-amd64
gpgcheck=1

FEDORA 17.x 32-bit
# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2012-11-06 13:50 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/fedora17-x86
gpgcheck=1


Instructions:

1. Pick one of the above depending on your operating system.
2. Add it to your yum repositories
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo
3. Install mariaDb
yum install MariaDB-client MariaDB-server

MariaDB is a drop-in replacement of MySQL. That means that you can replace your MySQL deployment with it. To do so, simply remove mysql-server and mysql in your system.

yum remove mysql mysql-server

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