1. Install Remi repository (as root) cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm ## CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ## rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm 2. Update to MySQL 5.5.46
yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-test list mysql mysql-devel mysql-server yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-test install mysql mysql-server 3. Restart mysql service mysqld restart mysql --version 4. Upgrade existing tables
mysql_upgrade -u root -p