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一、检查MySQL及相关RPM包，是否安装，如果有安装，则移除
[root@Mast ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
mysql-libs-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64
#卸载的时候可能存在依赖包，直接 -ev还删除不掉，需加上--nodeps 强制删除
[root@Mast ~]# rpm -ev mysql-libs-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64
error: Failed dependencies:
libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit) is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64
libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit) is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64
mysql-libs is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64
[root@Mast ~]# rpm -ev mysql-libs-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64 --nodeps
二、下载Linux对应的RPM包
官方下载地址：http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ 选择MySql Community Service(社区版进行下载)
我的是centos6.5 x86的系统，所以的下载包如下所示
[root@Mast data]# uname -a
Linux Mast 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 22 00:31:26 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@Mast data]# ls -l
total 115360
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 23495271 MySQL-client-5.6.30-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4591071 MySQL-devel-5.6.30-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 90037444 MySQL-server-5.6.30-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
三、安装MySQL
[root@Mast data]# rpm -ivh MySQL-server-5.6.30-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
[root@Mast data]# rpm -ivh MySQL-devel-5.6.30-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
[root@Mast data]# rpm -ivh MySQL-client-5.6.30-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
四、初始化MySQL及设置密码
[root@Mast ~]# /usr/bin/mysql_install_db #初始化数据库
[root@Mast ~]# service mysql start #启动数据库
[root@Mast ~]# cat /root/.mysql_secret #查看root用户的初始密码
# The random password set for the root user at Mon May 16 19:31:48 2016 (local time): DXaM9aqT62DxVUcv
[root@localhost ~]# mysql -uroot –p
mysql> SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('123456'); #设置密码为123456
mysql> exit
[root@localhost ~]# mysql -uroot -p
五、允许远程登录
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> select host,user,password from user;
+-----------------------+------+-------------------------------------------+
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| host | user | password |
+-----------------------+------+-------------------------------------------+
| localhost | root | *6BB4837EB74329105EE4568DDA7DC67ED2CA2AD9 |
| localhost.localdomain | root | *1237E2CE819C427B0D8174456DD83C47480D37E8 |
| 127.0.0.1 | root | *1237E2CE819C427B0D8174456DD83C47480D37E8 |
| ::1 | root | *1237E2CE819C427B0D8174456DD83C47480D37E8 |
+-----------------------+------+-------------------------------------------+
mysql> update user set password=password('123456') where user='root';
mysql> update user set host='%' where user='root' and host='localhost';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> exit
当远程通过jdbc连接数据库的时候，报如下错误；但是通过远程工具连接又不可以连接上。
java.sql.SQLException: Your password has expired.To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.
这句话的意思是，使用的密码过期，请及时修改密码；按照网上的很多指示修改密码，依然不能解决这个问题，怎么办？
答：解决方案如下：
mysql> select host,user,password_expired from user;
+--------------+------+------------------+
| host | user | password_expired |
+--------------+------+------------------+
| % | root | N |
| master | root | N |
| 127.0.0.1 | root | Y |
| ::1 | root | N |
| 172.16.8.163 | scm | N |
| master | scm | Y |
| localhost | root | Y |
| localhost | scm | Y |
+--------------+------+------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)简单说明一下：发现表中密码过期，密码过期状态（password_expired字段值）是否为Y，Y表示已过期，需要修改为N；
执行如下sql，将所有密码，都置为可用，完美解决。
update user set password_expired='N'
六、设置开机自启动
[root@Mast data]# chkconfig mysql on
[root@Mast data]# chkconfig --list mysql
mysql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
[root@Mast data]#
七、修改字符集
查看linux系统的字符集
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character%';
+--------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /data/mysql-5.6.30/share/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+------------------------------------+可以看到character_set_database和character_set_server的默认字符集还是latin1，配置/etc/my.cnf文件，加入如下代码，重启后，完美解决
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8每个版本的mysql这个文件的默认配置不一定相同，加入原则就是：
在[client] 后面加上default-character-set=utf8
在[mysqld]后面加上character-set-server=utf8
在[mysql]后面加上default-character-set=utf8
八、MySQL的默认安装位置
/var/lib/mysql/ #数据库目录
/usr/share/mysql #配置文件目录
/usr/bin #相关命令目录
/etc/init.d/mysql #启动脚本
参考博客：http://blog.csdn.net/liumm0000/article/details/18841197