Installing MariaDB with yum

https://kb.askmonty.org/en/installing-mariadb-with-yum/

We have YUM repositories for several YUM-based Linux distributions. To easily generate the appropriate MariaDB.repo entry for your distribution, use our online repository generator.

We currently have YUM repositories for CentOS 5, CentOS 6, RHEL 5, RHEL 6, Fedora 16, and Fedora 17.

Once you have your MariaDB.repo entry, add it to a file under /etc/yum.repos.d/. (We suggest something like/etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo.)

An example MariaDB.repo file for CentOS 5 x86 is:

[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos5-x86
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

The example file above includes a gpgkey line to automatically fetch the GPG key we use to sign the repositories. This key enables yum and rpm to verify the integrity of the packages it downloads.

Installing MariaDB with YUM

With the repo file in place you can now install MariaDB like so:

sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client

If you don't have the MariaDB GPG Signing key installed, YUM will prompt you to install it after downloading the packages (but before installing them).

After Installation

After the installation completes, start MariaDB with:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Manually Importing the MariaDB Signing Key

If you like, you can manually install the GPG key using the  rpm  application like so:

sudo rpm --import https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB