Install MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 6.x

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1. Install the MySQL Community repository
wget http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm
2. Installing MySQL 5.6
yum -y install mysql mysql-server
3. Verify the correct packages were installed
rpm -qa | grep mysql
 it should be:
 mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch
mysql-community-common-5.6.27-2.el6.x86_64
mysql-community-client-5.6.27-2.el6.x86_64
mysql-community-server-5.6.27-2.el6.x86_64
mysql-community-libs-5.6.27-2.el6.x86_64
mysql-community-libs-compat-5.6.27-2.el6.x86_64

4.Start MySQL
chkconfig mysqld on
service mysqld start