Lots of people today prefer to stick with the yum package manager when installing their related software over downloading the latest RPM from MySQL for example.
While you can download RPMS from a vendor and install with yum (yum install *.rpm ) you also can update your yum repo to pull directly from the Vendor for MySQL packages. At the time of this post you will only get you up to MySQL 5.5.13 even though MySQL 5.6 GA was released 5 February 2013 via the Oracle repo. Now that MariaDB has released MariaDB-5.5.33 I would hope Oracle will get a move on and update their public repo.
Regardless of what you choose. Here is how to set up vendor repos so you can access what you would like.
All of the instances have pages that I have listed that are easy to follow and set up. I will go ahead and give examples as well.
I will use CentOS 6 64bit for these examples.
In all of the cases you will be working from the yum.repos.d directory as root.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
http://public-yum.oracle.com
wget https://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo
# vi public-yum-ol6.repo
Locate the following and edit enabled to 1 from 0 then save the file.
[ol6_MySQL]
name=MySQL for Oracle Linux 6 ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
vi MariaDB.repo
MariaDB does offer you the choice to pick 5.5 OR 10, I used 5.5 for this example.
http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/yum_repo.html
vi Percona.repo
Hopefully this will help you all be able to get updated beyond what might be in your standard repos at the moment.
AS AN UPDATE:
I should also point out that MariaDB and Percona also have additional repos for other Linux distros.
While you can download RPMS from a vendor and install with yum (yum install *.rpm ) you also can update your yum repo to pull directly from the Vendor for MySQL packages. At the time of this post you will only get you up to MySQL 5.5.13 even though MySQL 5.6 GA was released 5 February 2013 via the Oracle repo. Now that MariaDB has released MariaDB-5.5.33 I would hope Oracle will get a move on and update their public repo.
Regardless of what you choose. Here is how to set up vendor repos so you can access what you would like.
All of the instances have pages that I have listed that are easy to follow and set up. I will go ahead and give examples as well.
I will use CentOS 6 64bit for these examples.
In all of the cases you will be working from the yum.repos.d directory as root.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
http://public-yum.oracle.com
wget https://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo
# vi public-yum-ol6.repo
Locate the following and edit enabled to 1 from 0 then save the file.
[ol6_MySQL]
name=MySQL for Oracle Linux 6 ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
yum list | grep MySQLmysql.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-devel.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-embedded.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-embedded-devel.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-libs.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-libs-compat.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-server.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
mysql-test.x86_64 5.5.34-1.el6 ol6_MySQL
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
vi MariaDB.repo
MariaDB does offer you the choice to pick 5.5 OR 10, I used 5.5 for this example.
# MariaDB 5.5 CentOS repository list - created 2013-09-24 21:59 UTC
# http://mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
MariaDB-Galera-server.x86_64 5.5.32-1 mariadb
MariaDB-client.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
MariaDB-common.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
MariaDB-compat.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
MariaDB-devel.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
MariaDB-server.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
MariaDB-shared.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
MariaDB-test.x86_64 5.5.33a-1 mariadb
galera.x86_64 23.2.6-1.rhel6 mariadb
vi Percona.repo
[percona]
name = CentOS $releasever - Percona
baseurl=http://repo.percona.com/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
enabled = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-percona
gpgcheck = 1
percona-toolkit.noarch 2.2.4-1 @/percona-toolkit-2.2.4-1.noarch
percona-xtrabackup.x86_64 2.1.3-608.rhel6 @/percona-xtrabackup-2.1.3-608.rhel6.x86_64
Percona-SQL-50-debuginfo.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-SQL-client-50.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-SQL-devel-50.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-SQL-server-50.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-SQL-shared-50.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-SQL-shared-compat.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-SQL-test-50.x86_64 5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-51-debuginfo.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-55-debuginfo.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-56-debuginfo.x86_64 5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-client-51.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-client-55.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-client-56.x86_64 5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-devel-51.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-devel-55.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-devel-56.x86_64 5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-server-51.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-server-55.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-server-56.x86_64 5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-shared-51.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-shared-55.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-shared-56.x86_64 5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-shared-compat.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-shared-compat-51.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-test-51.x86_64 5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-test-55.x86_64 5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6 percona
Percona-Server-test-56.x86_64 5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-client.x86_64 1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-debuginfo.x86_64 1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel.x86_64 1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-galera.x86_64 2.7-1.157.rhel6 percona
2.7-1.157.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-server.x86_64 1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-shared.x86_64 1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6 percona
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-test.x86_64 1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6 percona
jemalloc.x86_64 3.3.1-1.el6 percona
jemalloc-devel.x86_64 3.3.1-1.el6 percona
percona-cacti-templates.noarch 1.0.4-1 percona
percona-nagios-plugins.noarch 1.0.4-1 percona
percona-playback.x86_64 0.6-2.el6 percona
percona-playback-debuginfo.x86_64 0.6-2.el6 percona
percona-playback-devel.x86_64 0.6-2.el6 percona
percona-xtrabackup.x86_64 2.1.5-680.rhel6 percona
percona-xtrabackup-20.x86_64 2.0.8-587.rhel6 percona
percona-xtrabackup-20-debuginfo.x86_64 2.0.8-587.rhel6 percona
percona-xtrabackup-20-test.x86_64 2.0.8-587.rhel6 percona
percona-xtrabackup-test.x86_64 2.1.5-680.rhel6 percona
qpress.x86_64 11-1.el6 percona
qpress-debuginfo.x86_64 11-1.el6 percona AS AN UPDATE:
I should also point out that MariaDB and Percona also have additional repos for other Linux distros.
- https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
- http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/apt_repo.html#
