How to uninstall and install mysql-server in centos

Question

Hi, I am using CentOs and I dont know password of sql. I want to uninstall mysql-server and install in again. What are the steps to do this?

Answer 1

Please find below the command to uninstall MySQL.

yum remove mysql mysql-server

After this execute the following commands in order to install MySQL in your virtual machine.

wget http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install mysql-server 
sudo systemctl start mysqld
sudo systemctl status mysqld
sudo mysql_secure_installation
mysql -u root -p