How to Install MySQL 8 on CentOS

In this article, we will see How to Install MySQL 8 on CentOS 7.

MySQL 8 Installation on CentOS step by step:

Following are the commands used to install MySQL on CentOS:

1. wget https://repo.mysql.com/mysql80-community-release-el7-3.noarch.rpm

2. yum install mysql80-community-release-el7-3.noarch.rpm

3. yum repolist enabled | grep “mysql.*-community.*”

4. yum install mysql-community-server

5. service mysqld start

6. service mysqld status

7. grep ‘temporary password’ /var/log/mysqld.log

8. mysql -u root -p

9. alter user root@localhost identified by ‘John@321’;