How to install the latest MariaDB on CentOS

Question

The CentOS repository does not have the latest MariaDB database server/client. How can I install the latest version?

Answer 1

Here are the steps to install the latest MariaDB 10.4 on the CentOS machine:

• Go to https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories
• Choose a Distro (CentOS)  -> Choose a Release (your CentOS release) -> Choose a Version (your CentOS version)
• Create a file (MariaDB.repo or something similar) under /etc/yum.repos.d/ and copy and paste the following lines in it.

# MariaDB 10.4 CentOS repository list - created 2019-11-09 05:09 UTC
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.4/centos7-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

• After the file is in place, install MariaDB by running the following command on the terminal.

sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

If the above steps give the error, check the link given in the first step.