How to install MySql 5.6 or Mysql 6.7

New versions of ubuntu and debian come with mariadDB as predefined mysql server. But if we need to run a version of MySQL we can do it with the following steps.

Remove any existing mysql server from the machine

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

Download latest repository from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.12-1_all.deb

Install the repository tool

sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.12-1_all.deb

In this step you can selet the version you want to use.

Finaly, install the server

apt-get update
apt-get install mysql-community-server

If you are on Debian 9 you may get the message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-community-server : Depends: libmecab2 but it is not installable

The install the package and reinstall the mysql-community-server

wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mecab/libmecab2_0.996-3.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libmecab2_0.996-3.1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmecab2
sudo apt-get -y install mysql-community-server