MySQL 8 Cookbook

Using APT repositories

1. Add the MySQL APT repository to your system's repository list. This is a one-time operation that can be performed by installing a .deb file provided by MySQL You can download the MySQL APT repository from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/. Or you can copy the link location and use wget to download directly on to the server. You might need to install wget (sudo apt-get install wget):

shell> wget "https://repo.mysql.com//mysql-apt-config_0.8.9-1_all.deb"

2. Install the downloaded release package with the following command, replacing  the name with platform- and version-specific package name of the downloaded APT package:

shell> sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.9-1_all.deb (Reading database ... 131133 files and ...