How To Install MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

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Install MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 8
Install MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 8

MySQL is a free database management System software most commonly used in three-tier applications to store and retrieve records and information.

MySQL was initially developed by MYSQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation. It was the primary database application on Linux until MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, came into the picture.

In this article, we will see go through steps on how to install MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8.

The steps mentioned in this article will only work if you have enabled subscription on RHEL 8 or configured the local yum repository on your system.

Install MySQL 8.0 On CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

MySQL 8.0 is available for CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 from both OS AppStream repository and MySQL Dev Community repository.

1. Install MySQL 8.0 from MySQL Dev Community

Add the official repository of MySQL to install the MySQL community server.

rpm -ivh https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el8-1.noarch.rpm

Make sure the MySQL repository has been added and enabled by using the following command.

dnf repolist all | grep mysql | grep enabled

Output:

mysql-connectors-community         MySQL Connectors Community           enabled
mysql-tools-community              MySQL Tools Community                enabled
mysql80-community                  MySQL 8.0 Community Server           enabled

Use the dnf command in CentOS/RHEL to install the latest stable version of MySQL. Disable AppStream repository temporarily to install MySQL from MySQL Dev Community.

### CentOS 8 ###

dnf install -y --disablerepo=appstream mysql-community-server

### RHEL 8 ###

dnf install -y --disablerepo=rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms mysql-community-server

Output:

Dependencies resolved.
========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                             Architecture                Version                                   Repository                              Size
========================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 mysql-community-server                              x86_64                      8.0.25-1.el8                              mysql80-community                       53 M
Installing dependencies:
 mysql-community-client                              x86_64                      8.0.25-1.el8                              mysql80-community                       13 M
 mysql-community-client-plugins                      x86_64                      8.0.25-1.el8                              mysql80-community                       98 k
 mysql-community-common                              x86_64                      8.0.25-1.el8                              mysql80-community                      618 k
 mysql-community-libs                                x86_64                      8.0.25-1.el8                              mysql80-community                      1.4 M
 perl-Carp                                           noarch                      1.42-396.el8                              baseos                                  29 k
.     .     .
.     .     .
(36/37): mysql-community-client-8.0.25-1.el8.x86_64.rpm                                                                                 2.3 MB/s |  13 MB     00:05
(37/37): mysql-community-server-8.0.25-1.el8.x86_64.rpm                                                                                 5.0 MB/s |  53 MB     00:10
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                                                                   4.4 MB/s |  79 MB     00:17
warning: /var/cache/dnf/mysql80-community-b1f1ed5ba88ce0f8/packages/mysql-community-client-8.0.25-1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 5072e1f5: NOKEY
MySQL 8.0 Community Server                                                                                                               27 MB/s |  27 kB     00:00
Importing GPG key 0x5072E1F5:
 Userid     : "MySQL Release Engineering <[email protected]>"
 Fingerprint: A4A9 4068 76FC BD3C 4567 70C8 8C71 8D3B 5072 E1F5
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                                                                                1/1
  Installing       : perl-Pod-Escapes-1:1.07-395.el8.noarch                                                                                                        1/37
.     .     .
.     .     .
  perl-Term-Cap-1.17-395.el8.noarch                   perl-Text-ParseWords-3.30-395.el8.noarch                    perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap-2013.0523-395.el8.noarch
  perl-Time-Local-1:1.280-1.el8.noarch                perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.25-396.el8.x86_64                  perl-constant-1.33-396.el8.noarch
  perl-interpreter-4:5.26.3-419.el8.x86_64            perl-libs-4:5.26.3-419.el8.x86_64                           perl-macros-4:5.26.3-419.el8.x86_64
  perl-parent-1:0.237-1.el8.noarch                    perl-podlators-4.11-1.el8.noarch                            perl-threads-1:2.21-2.el8.x86_64
  perl-threads-shared-1.58-2.el8.x86_64

Complete!

2. Install MySQL 8.0 from AppStream

MySQL is now available through the Application Stream (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 – AppStream (RPMs)) for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8. So, you would not need to add an official repository of MySQL to install MySQL server on RHEL 8.

Check if the AppStream repository is enabled on RHEL 8 using the following command.

subscription-manager repos --list-enabled

Output:

+----------------------------------------------------------+
    Available Repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Repo ID:   rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
Repo Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)
Repo URL:  https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel8/$releasever/x86_64/baseos/os
Enabled:   1

Repo ID:   rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
Repo Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)
Repo URL:  https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel8/$releasever/x86_64/appstream/os
Enabled:   1

Use the dnf command to install the latest version of MySQL.

dnf install -y @mysql

Output:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:25 ago on Fri 11 Oct 2019 03:35:47 PM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================
 Package                            Arch         Version                                     Repository       Size
===================================================================================================================
Installing group/module packages:
 mysql-server                       x86_64       8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6         AppStream        25 M
Installing dependencies:
 mariadb-connector-c-config         noarch       3.0.7-1.el8                                 AppStream        13 k
 mecab                              x86_64       0.996-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.9        AppStream       397 k
 mysql                              x86_64       8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6         AppStream       9.2 M
 mysql-common                       x86_64       8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6         AppStream       142 k
 mysql-errmsg                       x86_64       8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6         AppStream       523 k
 perl-Digest                        noarch       1.17-395.el8                                AppStream        27 k
 perl-Digest-MD5                    x86_64       2.55-396.el8                                AppStream        37 k
 perl-Net-SSLeay                    x86_64       1.85-6.el8                                  AppStream       358 k
 perl-URI                           noarch       1.73-3.el8                                  AppStream       116 k
.      .      .
.      .      .
Enabling module streams:
 mysql                                           8.0                                                              

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================
Install  51 Packages

Total download size: 48 M
Installed size: 278 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/51): mariadb-connector-c-config-3.0.7-1.el8.noarch.rpm                           12 kB/s |  13 kB     00:01    
(2/51): mysql-common-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64.rpm                1.3 MB/s | 142 kB     00:00    
(3/51): mecab-0.996-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.9.x86_64.rpm                      328 kB/s | 397 kB     00:01    
(4/51): mysql-errmsg-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64.rpm                5.7 MB/s | 523 kB     00:00    
(5/51): perl-Digest-1.17-395.el8.noarch.rpm                                        530 kB/s |  27 kB     00:00    
(6/51): perl-Digest-MD5-2.55-396.el8.x86_64.rpm                                    959 kB/s |  37 kB     00:00    
(7/51): mysql-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64.rpm                       6.3 MB/s | 9.2 MB     00:01    
.      .      .
.      .      .
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                           1/1 
  Installing       : perl-Exporter-5.72-396.el8.noarch                                                        1/51 
  Installing       : perl-libs-4:5.26.3-416.el8.x86_64                                                        2/51 
  Installing       : perl-Carp-1.42-396.el8.noarch                                                            3/51 
  Installing       : perl-Scalar-List-Utils-3:1.49-2.el8.x86_64                                               4/51 
  Installing       : perl-parent-1:0.237-1.el8.noarch                                                         5/51 
.      .      .
.      .      .
Installed:
  mysql-server-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64  perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.39-5.el8.noarch                     
  perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.060-2.el8.noarch                    perl-Mozilla-CA-20160104-7.el8.noarch                   
  mariadb-connector-c-config-3.0.7-1.el8.noarch            mecab-0.996-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.9.x86_64       
  mysql-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64         mysql-common-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64 
  mysql-errmsg-8.0.13-1.module_el8.0.0+41+ca30bab6.x86_64  perl-Digest-1.17-395.el8.noarch                         
  perl-Digest-MD5-2.55-396.el8.x86_64                      perl-Net-SSLeay-1.85-6.el8.x86_64                       
  perl-URI-1.73-3.el8.noarch                               perl-libnet-3.11-3.el8.noarch                           
  protobuf-lite-3.5.0-7.el8.x86_64                         libaio-0.3.110-12.el8.x86_64                            
  numactl-libs-2.0.12-2.el8.x86_64                         perl-Carp-1.42-396.el8.noarch                           
  perl-Data-Dumper-2.167-399.el8.x86_64                    perl-Encode-4:2.97-3.el8.x86_64                         
  perl-Errno-1.28-416.el8.x86_64                           perl-Exporter-5.72-396.el8.noarch                       
  perl-File-Path-2.15-2.el8.noarch                         perl-File-Temp-0.230.600-1.el8.noarch                   
  perl-Getopt-Long-1:2.50-4.el8.noarch                     perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.074-1.el8.noarch                       
  perl-IO-1.38-416.el8.x86_64                              perl-MIME-Base64-3.15-396.el8.x86_64                    
  perl-PathTools-3.74-1.el8.x86_64                         perl-Pod-Escapes-1:1.07-395.el8.noarch                  
  perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.28-396.el8.noarch                     perl-Pod-Simple-1:3.35-395.el8.noarch                   
  perl-Pod-Usage-4:1.69-395.el8.noarch                     perl-Scalar-List-Utils-3:1.49-2.el8.x86_64              
  perl-Socket-4:2.027-2.el8.x86_64                         perl-Storable-1:3.11-3.el8.x86_64                       
  perl-Term-ANSIColor-4.06-396.el8.noarch                  perl-Term-Cap-1.17-395.el8.noarch                       
  perl-Text-ParseWords-3.30-395.el8.noarch                 perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap-2013.0523-395.el8.noarch            
  perl-Time-Local-1:1.280-1.el8.noarch                     perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.25-396.el8.x86_64              
  perl-constant-1.33-396.el8.noarch                        perl-interpreter-4:5.26.3-416.el8.x86_64                
  perl-libs-4:5.26.3-416.el8.x86_64                        perl-macros-4:5.26.3-416.el8.x86_64                     
  perl-parent-1:0.237-1.el8.noarch                         perl-podlators-4.11-1.el8.noarch                        
  perl-threads-1:2.21-2.el8.x86_64                         perl-threads-shared-1.58-2.el8.x86_64                   
  policycoreutils-python-utils-2.8-16.1.el8.noarch        

Complete!

Manage MySQL server Service

After the installation of MySQL, start MySQL server service using the following command.

systemctl start mysqld

Enable MySQL server at system startup.

systemctl enable mysqld

Verify that MySQL server is started using the following command.

systemctl status mysqld

Output:

 mysqld.service - MySQL Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-07-02 00:08:12 EDT; 11s ago
     Docs: man:mysqld(8)
           http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/using-systemd.html
 Main PID: 3794 (mysqld)
   Status: "Server is operational"
    Tasks: 38 (limit: 23664)
   Memory: 442.0M
   CGroup: /system.slice/mysqld.service
           └─3794 /usr/sbin/mysqld

Jul 02 00:08:01 rocky8.itzgeek.local systemd[1]: Starting MySQL Server...
Jul 02 00:08:12 rocky8.itzgeek.local systemd[1]: Started MySQL Server.

Secure MySQL server

Installed MySQL from MySQL Dev Community

In CentOS 8 / RHEL 8, the initial MySQL root password can be found in /var/log/mysqld.log. You can use the below command to take the password from the log file.

cat /var/log/mysqld.log | grep -i 'temporary password'

Output:

2021-07-02T04:08:05.488758Z 6 [Note] [MY-010454] [Server] A temporary password is generated for root@localhost: PlrS,Tw&d9q2

Now, you need to run mysql_secure_installation to secure your MySQL installation. This command takes care of setting the root password, removing anonymous users, disallow root login remotely, etc.

mysql_secure_installation

Output:

Securing the MySQL server deployment.

Enter password for user root:   << Enter the temporary password you got from the previous step

The existing password for the user account root has expired. Please set a new password.

New password:   << Enter new root password

Re-enter new password:   << Re-enter new root password
The 'validate_password' component is installed on the server.
The subsequent steps will run with the existing configuration
of the component.
Using existing password for root.

Estimated strength of the password: 100 
Change the password for root ? ((Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : N  << Type N and Enter as we have already set root password

 ... skipping.
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user,
allowing anyone to log into MySQL without having to have
a user account created for them. This is intended only for
testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother.
You should remove them before moving into a production
environment.

Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y  << Remove anonymous user
Success.


Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from
'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at
the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y  << Disallow root login remotely
Success.

By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that
anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing,
and should be removed before moving into a production
environment.


Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y  << Remove test database
 - Dropping test database...
Success.

 - Removing privileges on test database...
Success.

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes
made so far will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y  << Reload privilege tables
Success.

All done!

Installed MySQL from AppStream

In CentOS 8 / RHEL 8, no password is set for MySQL root user. So, we will run mysql_secure_installation to secure your MySQL installation by setting the root password, removing anonymous users, disallow root login remotely, etc.

mysql_secure_installation

Output:

Securing the MySQL server deployment.

Connecting to MySQL using a blank password.

VALIDATE PASSWORD COMPONENT can be used to test passwords
and improve security. It checks the strength of password
and allows the users to set only those passwords which are
secure enough. Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD component?

Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No: Y    << Type Y to use VALIDATE PASSWORD COMPONENT to check strength of passwords

There are three levels of password validation policy:

LOW    Length >= 8
MEDIUM Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, and special characters
STRONG Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, special characters and dictionary                  file

Please enter 0 = LOW, 1 = MEDIUM and 2 = STRONG: 1    << Choose the Level of Strongness
Please set the password for root here.

New password:    << Enter Root Password

Re-enter new password:    << Re-enter Root Password

Estimated strength of the password: 100
Do you wish to continue with the password provided?(Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y    << Press Y to set password
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user,
allowing anyone to log into MySQL without having to have
a user account created for them. This is intended only for
testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother.
You should remove them before moving into a production
environment.

Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y    << Press Y to Remove Anonymous User
Success.


Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from
'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at
the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y    << Press Y to Disallow Remote Root Login
Success.

By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that
anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing,
and should be removed before moving into a production
environment.


Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y    << Press Y to Remove test database
 - Dropping test database...
Success.

 - Removing privileges on test database...
Success.

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes
made so far will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : Y    << Press Y to Reload Privilege
Success.

All done!

Work with MySQL Server

Login to MySQL server as the MySQL root user.

mysql -u root -p

Output:

Enter password:    << Enter MySQL Root Password
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 12
Server version: 8.0.13 Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

Install phpMyAdmin

If you are a newbie to MySQL and have less know knowledge of the MySQL command line, consider installing phpMyAdmin, an open-source web-based management tool to manage MySQL and MariaDB databases.

READ: How To Install phpMyAdmin with Apache on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

READ: How To Install phpMyAdmin with Nginx on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Notes for MySQL 8.0 installed from MySQL Dev Community repository:

MySQL 8.0 uses a caching_sha2_password mechanism for authentication which prevents legacy applications to access databases including phpMyAdmin at this moment. In simple terms, you won’t be login to phpMyAdmin unless we disable this new password mechanism.

You can globally disable the new password mechanism by placing default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password in /etc/my.cnf (Users created after this change will have mysql_native_password authentication mechanism) or you can revert to the old native authentication (mysql_native_password) for individual users (Ex: root) by running ALTER USER ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ‘<password>’; command in MySQL terminal.

Conclusion

In this article, you have learned how to install MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. Please share your feedback in the comments section.

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