How to install MariaDB on CentOS

Goto https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#mirror=evowise-ny and select version to generate repository file. For version 10.1, the file content as blow:

# MariaDB 10.1 CentOS repository list - created 2016-11-04 03:20 UTC

# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/

[mariadb]

name = MariaDB

baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.1/centos7-amd64

gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB

gpgcheck=1

Installation command:

sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

Command to secure Mysql (By default, root doesn’t have password)

sudo service mariadb start

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Written on November 3, 2016