Oracle Linux 7 comes with MySQL yum repository pre-installed. By Default MySQL 8 repository is enabled. You can disable MySQL 8 repository and enable MySQL 5.7 repository to install MySQL 5.7. You can find enabled repositories with command yum repolist all | grep -i mysql Example [root@sql2 ~]# yum repolist all | grep -i mysql … Read more
Oracle Linux is Free 100% binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, same as CentOS. Unlike RHEL, Oracle Linux is free even for commercial use. Oracle only charges if you need support. Oracle provides a script to convert CentOS to Oracle Linux https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol This script support CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and CentOS 8. Before you can … Read more
Oracle Linux is a free RHEL based Linux distro. We will install PHP 5.6 on an Oracle Linux 7 server. First, enable EPEL repo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm Enable Remi repo yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm Install yum-utils package yum install yum-utils Enable remi-php56 yum-config-manager –enable remi-php56 Install PHP 5.6 with yum install -y php php-bcmath php-cli php-common … Read more
Oracle Linux come with Ksplice, it allow you to upgrade Kernel with out rebooting. To update kernel, run uptrack-upgrade Example