No package msyql-server available

Question

I'm trying to set up MySQL on an Amazon Linux instance, I've tried everything (and with the -y option as well):

$ sudo yum install mysql-server 
$ sudo yum install mysql56-server 
$ sudo yum install mysql-community-server 

I keep getting the "No package msqql-server available", "No package msyql56-server available", etc...

I've also ran yum clean all, yum update all, etc...

I'm assuming I have to install the RPM, but I don't know what version to install and while there is documentation for CentOS, there is little documentation specifically for Amazon Linux for setting up MySQL.

And these instructions didn't work as I got the error message "No package mysql56-server available" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html

Answer 1

This worked:

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-8.noarch.rpm

sudo yum localinstall mysql57-community-release-el7-8.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install mysql-community-server 

Answer 2

UPDATE for 2022:

rpm --import https://repo.mysql.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql-2022
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum localinstall mysql57-community-release-el7-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install mysql-community-server
service mysqld start

ref: https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/4419382481815?input_string=gpg+keys+problem+with+mysql+5.7