{"id":2976,"date":"2014-09-30T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2014-09-30T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:04:03","slug":"oracle-linux-ships-mariadb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/09\/30\/oracle-linux-ships-mariadb","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Linux ships MariaDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t remember why I was installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/us\/technologies\/linux\/overview\/index.html\">Oracle Enterprise Linux 7<\/a> on Oracle VirtualBox a while back, but I did notice something interesting. It ships, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/centos.org\/\">CentOS<\/a> 7, <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.com\/kb\/en\/mariadb\/what-is-mariadb-55\/\">MariaDB Server 5.5<\/a>. Presumably, this means that MariaDB is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/us\/technologies\/linux\/support\/overview\/index.html\">supported<\/a> by Oracle, too ;-) [jokes aside,\u00a0<strong>It\u2019s likely because OEL7 is meant to be 100% compatible to RHEL7<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"OEL7__Running_ by Colin Charles, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/15217574770\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3844\/15217574770_e7ffc49524_n.jpg?resize=320%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"OEL7__Running_\" width=\"320\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The only reason I mention this now is Vadim Tkachenko, probably got his most <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VadimTk\/status\/516811049975033856\">retweeted tweet<\/a> recently, stating just that. If you want to upgrade to <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.com\/kb\/en\/mariadb\/what-is-mariadb-100\/\">MariaDB 10<\/a>, don\u2019t forget that the <a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.mariadb.org\/mariadb\/repositories\/#mirror=kaist\">repository download tool<\/a> provides CentOS 7 binaries, which should \u201cjust work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to switch to MySQL, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/downloads\/repo\/yum\/\">Public Yum repository<\/a> that MySQL provides (and also don\u2019t forget to check the Extras directory of the full installation &#8211; from OEL7 docs sub-titled: <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E52668_01\/E53499\/html\/ol7-features-changes.html#section_onz_zfn_p4\">MySQL Community and MariaDB Packages<\/a>). Be sure to read the MySQL docs about <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/mysql-yum-repo-quick-guide\/en\/\">using the Yum repository<\/a>. I also just noticed that the docs now have information on <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.6\/en\/replace-third-party-yum.html\">replacing a third-party distribution of MySQL using the MySQL yum repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t remember why I was installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 on Oracle VirtualBox a while back, but I did notice something interesting. It ships, just like CentOS 7, MariaDB Server 5.5. Presumably, this means that MariaDB is now supported by Oracle, too ;-) [jokes aside,\u00a0It\u2019s likely because OEL7 is meant to be 100% compatible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1064,23],"tags":[38,1700,1699,1693],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mariadb-databases","category-mysql","tag-centos","tag-centos7","tag-oel7","tag-secondary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-M0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}