Installing MySQL 5.7 on CentOS 6
Installing the MySQL repository
[[email protected] ~]# wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-7.noarch.rpm
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -ivh mysql57-community-release-el6-7.noarch.rpm
Install MySQL server and client
[[email protected] ~]# yum install -y mysql-community-client mysql-community-server
Starting MySQL
[[email protected] ~]# service mysqld start
We are looking for a password in the log file
[[email protected] ~]# grep -i temporary /var/log/mysqld.log
Connect to MySQL using the password from the log file
[[email protected] ~]# mysql -uroot -p
Change the root password
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('Yourpassword1!');