I have a cPanel installed on a CentOS server and it includes an old version of Mysql. Has anyone tried upgrading Mysql to 5.5 on a cPanel managed server? If so, I would really like some guidance. I read, on the cPanel forum, that it's not supported and one user complained, after manually upgrading his version of Mysql, cPanel automatically removed it, but that was a long time ago.

Also, I'm a newbie to Linux, so please forgive any dumb questions.

Help... Thanks.

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however possible it may be to install custom versions of server software shipped with cPanel, they are untested and if they don't break immediately, will almost certainly break at a subsequent cPanel version bump/upgrade.

one brave sole reported losing databases after doing it - make sure to backup /var/lib/mysql if you want to attempt this.

I wouldn't do it unless you don't care what happens to the server.

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FYI, WHM 11.32 will support MySQL 5.5 officially http://vbtechsupport.com/1254/ :)

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