Problems installing MySQL 5.7 properly on fresh CentOS 7 install - Magento

JosephCandava
January 25, 2019
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I admit that I am new to back-end work in general and I seem to be stuck (for several hours) following through with completing the setting up process for Magento 2.3

I was following https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/install-gde/prereq/mysql.html for my commands but to no success.

I managed to get the following installed:

Cent OS 7 (x86_64)
Apache 2.4.6
PHP 7.2.14 (all the extensions installed passed the Setup Wizard readiness check)

I used these commands to install MySQL 5.7 Community Release: (from the documentation)

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-7.noarch.rpm
yum -y install mysql mysql-server
yum -y install mysql-community-server

To check if my installation went well, when I run:

mysql --version

I received an error message saying:

-bash: /usr/bin/mysql: No such file or directory

I know that there is something I definitely am missing out completely. When I try to start the MySQL service using the command:

systemctl start mysqld

I get the resulting error message:

Failed to start mysqld.service: Unit not found.

Any suggestions will much be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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- JosephCandava
- January 25, 2019 at 6:41 am
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After removing MySQL 5.7 community release from my Cent OS, I decided to install MariaDB.

Inside the directory /etc/yum.repos.d/ I've created a file called MariaDB.repo and added this into the file:
```
# MariaDB 10.3 CentOS repository list - created 2019-01-25 05:36 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.3/centos7-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
```
I then performed the command in my terminal window:
```
sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
```
Because of this, mysql --version and systemctl start mysql works like a charm. Thanks @greenberet123 and @danblack for the suggestion.