Question MYSQL Upgrade

[David R]

Hi all

New here so bear with!

I want to upgrade the vBulletin forum that we use to the latest version, but before I can do that I need to upgrade MYSQL as the minimum requirements are v5.5.8 (minimum).

I inherited this system and my Linux knowledge is pretty much zero (I am a new-age windows person!), does anyone know of any good step by step guides that I can follow? I will snapshot before I begin but I would like to do some reading before hand. Also, any gotchyas to look out for would be much appreciated. the server is running Ubuntu 14.04.1

Thanks

Dave

 

[IgorG]

Try to use your "pretty much zero Linux knowledge" for applying instruction from this KB article - How to upgrade MySQL 5.5 to 5.6/5.7 or MariaDB 5.5 to 10.0/10.1/10.2 on Linux