Everything you see here is found more formally at “https://mariadb.com/docs/operations/upgrades/upgrade-community-server-cs103-centos7/”. This page is basically just my notes in case I can’t find the other site when I need it in future.
We’re using CentOS 7 and upgrading from “MariaDB 5.5” to “MariaDB 10.3”. Backup your DB and config files first.
Stop and remove the current MariaDB software. The DB remains untouched:
systemctl stop mariadb yum remove "MariaDB-*"
Download and verify the new version:
wget https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup echo "fc84b8954141ed3c59ac7a1adfc8051c93171bae7ba34d7f9aeecd3b148f1527 mariadb_repo_setup" | sha256sum -c -
Install the new version:
chmod +x mariadb_repo_setup ./mariadb_repo_setup --mariadb-server-version="mariadb-10.3" yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-backup
Enable and start the new version:
systemctl enable mariadb systemctl start mariadb
Upgrade the DB:
mysql_upgrade -u root -p
Log in and validate it:
mysql -h localhost -u root -p
At this point you should be done.
