How To Install mariadb-server on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server on CentOS 7.
What is mariadb-server
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 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mariadb-server.
Install mariadb-server on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mariadb-server using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mariadb-server
Install mariadb-server on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mariadb-server using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mariadb-server
How To Uninstall mariadb-server on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mariadb-server package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mariadb-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
