RHEL6 ships with MySQL 5.1.52, but I do database development and need to test against the latest version. To get to 5.5.11 on my new RHEL6 server, I took the following steps: STEP 1: Remove MySQL 5.1.52 I used the following commands to uninstall MySQL 5.1.52: yum erase mysql yum erase mysql-libs.x86_64 STEP 2: Download …