How To Install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8. mariadb-server-galera is The configuration files and scripts for galera replication

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8.

What is mariadb-server-galera

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs and libraries. This package contains the MariaDB server and some accompanying files and directories. MariaDB is a community developed branch of MySQL.

We can use yum or dnf to install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mariadb-server-galera.

Install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mariadb-server-galera using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mariadb-server-galera

Install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mariadb-server-galera using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mariadb-server-galera

How To Uninstall mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mariadb-server-galera package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mariadb-server-galera

mariadb-server-galera Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/my.cnf.d/galera.cnf
/etc/sysconfig/clustercheck
/usr/bin/clustercheck
/usr/bin/galera_new_cluster
/usr/bin/galera_recovery
/usr/share/doc/mariadb-server-galera
/usr/share/doc/mariadb-server-galera/README-wsrep
/usr/share/licenses/mariadb-server-galera
/usr/share/licenses/mariadb-server-galera/LICENSE.clustercheck
/usr/share/mariadb/systemd/use_galera_new_cluster.conf
/usr/share/selinux/packages/mariadb/mariadb-server-galera.pp

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server-galera on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.