Adding the MySQL Apt Repository.  First, add the MySQL APT repository to your system's software repository list. Follow these steps:

Instead of using the release package, you can also add and configure the MySQL APT repository manually; see Appendix A: Adding and Configuring the MySQL APT Repository Manually for details.

By default, all installations and upgrades for your MySQL server and the other required components come from the release series of the major version you have selected during the installation of the configuration package (see Adding the MySQL Apt Repository). However, you can switch to another supported major release series at any time by reconfiguring the configuration package you have installed. Use the following command:

$> sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-apt-config

A dialogue box then asks you to choose the major release version you want. Make your selection and choose Ok. After returning to the command prompt, update package information from the MySQL APT repository with this command:

$> sudo apt-get update

The latest version in the selected series will then be installed when you use the apt-get install command next time.

You can use the same method to change the version for any other MySQL component you want to install with the MySQL APT repository.

Install MySQL by the following command:

$> sudo apt-get install mysql-server

This installs the package for the MySQL server, as well as the packages for the client and for the database common files.

During the installation, you are asked to supply a password for the root user for your MySQL installation.

The MySQL server is started automatically after installation. You can check the status of the MySQL server with the following command:

$> systemctl status mysql

If the operating system is systemd enabled, standard systemctl (or alternatively, service with the arguments reversed) commands such as stop, start, status, and restart should be used to manage the MySQL server service. The mysql service is enabled by default, and it starts at system reboot. See Section 2.5.9, “Managing MySQL Server with systemd” for additional information.

You can use APT to install individual components of MySQL from the MySQL APT repository. Assuming you already have the MySQL APT repository on your system's repository list (see Adding the MySQL Apt Repository for instructions), first, use the following command to get the latest package information from the MySQL APT repository:

$> sudo apt-get update

Install any packages of your choice with the following command, replacing package-name with name of the package to install:

$> sudo apt-get install package-name

For example, to install the MySQL Workbench:

$> sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-community

To install the shared client libraries:

$> sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient21

You can download the source code for MySQL and build it using the MySQL APT Repository:

See also information given in Starting and Stopping the MySQL Server.

Use the MySQL APT repository to perform an in-place upgrade for your MySQL installation (that is, replacing the old version and then running the new version using the old data files) by following these steps:

Variants and forks of MySQL are distributed by different parties through their own software repositories or download sites. You can replace a native distribution of MySQL installed from your Linux platform's software repository with a distribution from the MySQL APT repository in a few steps.

deb packages from MySQL for installing the MySQL server and its components can either be downloaded from the MySQL Developer Zone's MySQL Download page or from the MySQL APT repository. The deb packages from the two sources are different, and they install and configure MySQL in different ways.

If you have installed MySQL with the MySQL Developer Zone's deb packages and now want to replace the installation using the ones from the MySQL APT repository, follow these steps:

To uninstall the MySQL server and the related components that have been installed using the MySQL APT repository, first, remove the MySQL server using the following command:

$> sudo apt-get remove mysql-server

Then, remove any other software that was installed automatically with the MySQL server:

$> sudo apt-get autoremove

To uninstall other components, use the following command, replacing package-name with the name of the package of the component you want to remove:

$> sudo apt-get remove package-name

To see a list of packages you have installed from the MySQL APT repository, use the following command:

$> dpkg -l | grep mysql | grep ii

You can install the shared client libraries from MySQL APT repository by the following command (see Installing Additional MySQL Products and Components with APT for more details):

$> sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient21

If you already have the shared client libraries installed from you Linux platform's software repository, it can be updated by the MySQL APT repository with its own package by using the same command (see Replacing the Native Distribution by an APT Update for more details).

After updating MySQL using the APT repository, applications compiled with older versions of the shared client libraries should continue to work.

If you recompile applications and dynamically link them with the updated libraries: as typical with new versions of shared libraries, any applications compiled using the updated, newer shared libraries might require those updated libraries on systems where the applications are deployed. If those libraries are not in place, the applications requiring the shared libraries might fail. Therefore, it is recommended that the packages for the shared libraries from MySQL be deployed on those systems. You can do this by adding the MySQL APT repository to the systems (see Adding the MySQL Apt Repository) and installing the latest shared client libraries using the command given at the beginning of this section.

You can use APT to install individual components and additional products of MySQL NDB Cluster from the MySQL APT repository. To do that, assuming you already have the MySQL APT repository on your system's repository list (see Adding the MySQL Apt Repository for MySQL NDB Cluster), follow the same steps given in Installing Additional MySQL Products and Components with APT.

Here are the steps for adding manually the MySQL APT repository to your system's software repository list and configuring it, without using the release packages provided by MySQL:

You have configured your system to use the MySQL APT repository and are now ready to continue with Installing MySQL with APT or Installing Additional MySQL Products and Components with APT.