MariaDB

1. Add MariaDB YUM repository

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo

# MariaDB 5.5 CentOS repository list

# 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

2. Then, run the following commands.

# yum -y update

# service mysql stop

# yum -y remove mysql-server mysql

3. Install MariaDB 5.5.

# yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

# service mysql start

4. Check if MariaDB service is running.

# netstat -ntlp | grep 3306

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306            0.0.0.0:*LISTEN      5476/mysqld