Installing MySQL on Linux Using the MySQL Yum Repository b. Select and download the release package for your platform. c. Install the downloaded release package with the following command, replacing  platform-and- version-specific-package-name  with the name of the downloaded RPM package: shell>  sudo yum install  platform-and-version-specific-package-name .rpm shell>  sudo yum install mysql80-community-release-el6- {version-number} .noarch.rpm For an EL6-based system, the command is in the form of: For an EL7-based system: shell>  sudo yum install mysql80-community-release-el7- {version-number} .noarch.rpm shell>  sudo yum install mysql80-community-release-el8- {version-number} .noarch.rpm shell>  sudo dnf install mysql80-community-release-fc34- {version-number} .noarch.rpm shell>  sudo dnf install mysql80-community-release-fc33- {version-number} .noarch.rpm For an EL8-based system: For Fedora 34: For Fedora 33: The installation command adds the MySQL Yum repository to your system’s repository list and downloads the GnuPG key to check the integrity of the software packages. See Section 2.1.4.2, “Signature Checking Using GnuPG”  for details on GnuPG key checking. You can check that the MySQL Yum repository has been successfully added by the following command (for dnf-enabled systems, replace  yum  in the command with  dnf ): shell>  yum repolist enabled | grep "mysql.*-community.*" Note Once the MySQL Yum repository is enabled on your system, any system- wide update by the  yum update  command (or  dnf upgrade  for dnf-enabled systems) upgrades MySQL packages on your system and replaces any native third-party packages, if Yum finds replacements for them in the MySQL Yum repository; see Section 2.11.7, “Upgrading MySQL with the MySQL Yum Repository” , for a discussion on some possible effects of that on your system, see Upgrading the Shared Client Libraries. When using the MySQL Yum repository, the latest GA series (currently MySQL 8.0) is selected for installation by default. If this is what you want, you can skip to the next step, Installing MySQL. Within the MySQL Yum repository, different release series of the MySQL Community Server are hosted in different subrepositories. The subrepository for the latest GA series (currently MySQL 8.0) is enabled by default, and the subrepositories for all other series (for example, the MySQL 8.0 series) are disabled by default. Use this command to see all the subrepositories in the MySQL Yum repository, and see 2. Selecting a Release Series 172