installing mysql 5.6 on RHEL Centos 7 - AdvancedPhotonSource/ComponentDB GitHub Wiki

Here are the steps for installing mysql5.6 (a version that is hard to install with standard tricks):

sudo yum localinstall https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-11.noarch.rpm
sudo yum-config-manager --disable mysql57-community
sudo yum-config-manager --enable mysql56-community
sudo yum repolist enabled | grep mysql
sudo yum install mysql-community-server
sudo service mysqld start
sudo service mysqld status
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
mysql --port=3306 --host=127.0.0.1 -u root -p
sudo yum install -y mysql-libs mysql-devel