How to Install MariaDB on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Installing MariaDB Server

The RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 distributions include MariaDB Server 5.5 by default.

You can install MariaDB Server from the command-line:

# yum install mariadb-server

Installing MariaDB Server 10.4

To deploy MariaDB Community Server 10.4 on RHEL 7 or CentOS 7, first download and use the mariadb_repo_setup script to configure the MariaDB repositories for YUM:

# yum install wget
# wget https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup
# chmod +x mariadb_repo_setup
# sudo ./mariadb_repo_setup

To install MariaDB Community Server and dependencies:

# yum install MariaDB-server -y

Starting MariaDB Server

Start the systemd service for MariaDB Server 5.5 or 10.4 using systemctl:

#systemctl start mariadb.service

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