Specifications

Upgrading

8. Upgrade Java.

a. Download the self-installing RPM of Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 6u45 from the Java SE 6 Downloads

page. The file to download is jre-6u45-linux-x64-rpm.bin.

b. Make the RPM installer executable, install the JRE, and verify the installed version.

chmod +x ./jre-6u45-linux-x64-rpm.bin

./jre-6u45-linux-x64-rpm.bin

java -version

c. Remove the older version of Java.

yum -y remove jre-1.6.0_31-fcs.x86_64

5.2. Upgrading MySQL Server

The procedure in this section removes MySQL Server and then installs the updated release.

1. Log in as root, or as a user with superuser privileges.

2. Stop MySQL Server.

service mysql stop

Note

For older releases of MySQL Server, the daemon is mysqld, not mysql.

3. Determine which MySQL packages are installed.

rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

Remove package(s) as necessary.

rpm -e --nodeps package-name

4. Download the following Red Hat/Oracle Enterprise Linux (x86, 64-bit) RPM Packages of MySQL Community

Server, version 5.5.35, from mysql.com:

• MySQL Server

• Client Utilities

• Shared components

5. Clean yum caches and metadata, and then install the MySQL Server packages.

yum clean all

yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall MySQL*

6. Start MySQL Server.

service mysql start

7. Upgrade the existing databases.

mysql_upgrade

8. Set MySQL Server to start when the system starts, restart it, and set the root password for the Zenoss Core upgrade.