MySQL 8 Cookbook

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MySQL has a dependency on the libaio library. The data directory initialization, and subsequent server startup steps, will fail if this library is not installed locally.

On YUM-based systems:

shell> sudo yum install -y libaio

On APT-based systems:

shell> sudo apt-get install -y libaio1

Download the TAR binary from the MySQL Downloads page, at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/, then choose Linux - Generic as the OS and select the version. You can download directly onto your server directly using the wget command:

shell> cd /optshell> wget "https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-8.0/mysql-8.0.3-rc-linux-glibc2.12-x86_64.tar.gz"

Install MySQL using the following steps:

1. Add the mysql group and the mysql user. All the ...