MySQL 5.5 on CentOS/RHEL 6.7 via Yum
Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x and CentOS 6.x have been providing MySQL 5.1 in its distribution since that was the active stable branch when RHEL 6.0 was released. Since then, Sun/Oracle have released MySQL 5.5, so the Webtatic Yum repository has added them to its web stack, which now provides updated versions of all the AMP in LAMP.