CentOS6.4にmysql 5.6.16をインストールした。

20140318更新 

# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

 yum erase mysql-5.1.69-1.el6_4.x86_64 mysql-devel-5.1.69-1.el6_4.x86_64 mysql-server-5.1.69-1.el6_4.x86_64 mysql-libs-5.1.69-1.el6_4.x86_64

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-server-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-client-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-devel-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-shared-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

yum install MySQL-server-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
yum install MySQL-client-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
yum install MySQL-devel-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
yum install MySQL-shared-5.6.16-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

# cat /root/.mysql_secret
# The random password set for the root user at Fri Oct 11 15:43:09 2013 (local time): eDpfy22r

# service mysql start
# mysql -uroot -p

mysql> set password for 'root'@'localhost'=password('xxxxxx');

mysql> use mysql;
Database changed
mysql> select host, user, password from user;
+-------------------------------+------+-------------------------------------------+
| host                                   | user | password                                          |
+-------------------------------+------+-------------------------------------------+
| localhost                           | root | *D3F8362A5CC757B308222F6CF971CC5407185638 |
| terminal-manage.cxdnext.co.jp | root | *D13EFCDE1766FB275BEC1B94639DF8E0305861A8 |
| 127.0.0.1                          | root | *D13EFCDE1766FB275BEC1B94639DF8E0305861A8 |
| ::1                                      | root | *D13EFCDE1766FB275BEC1B94639DF8E0305861A8 |
+-------------------------------+------+-------------------------------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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