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Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn about the installing, upgrading, and downgrading steps of MySQL 8. There are five different ways to install or upgrade; the three most widely-used installation methods are covered in this chapter:

Software repositories (YUM or APT)
RPM or DEB files
Generic Binaries
Docker (not covered)
Source code compilation (not covered)

If you have already installed MySQL and want to upgrade, go through the upgrade steps in the Upgrade to MySQL 8 section. If your installation is corrupt, go through the uninstallation steps also in the Upgrade to MySQL 8 section.

Before installation, make a note of OS and CPU architecture. The convention followed is as follows:

MySQL Linux RPM package distribution identifiers ...

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