MariaDB Server 

This package contains a number of .rpm files that together comprise the MariaDB Server distribution.

The packages included in this archive may vary depending on the OS you're using and its release version, as different components may require libraries or functionality available only in newer releases. 

The .rpm files can be installed individually, but there are complex interdependencies that are difficult to resolve using rpm alone. For that reason, this package is distributed as a ready-to-use Yum archive, so that you can use yum to install the packages in it.

In order for the package manager to be able to install these packages, you will need to place them in a location that the package manager has privileges to access. You may find that /opt is a good location where you can unpack the archive and the package manager will be able to read it.

To use the archive with yum, create a mariadb.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ that points to the directory where you've extracted the files. A helpful script called setup_repository is included in this archive to do this for you.

You'll need to do this work as root, so that you can write files to these locations.

cd /opt
tar -xf ~/mariadb-10.1.17-rhel-7-x86_64-rpms.tar
mariadb-10.1.17-rhel-7-x86_64-rpms/setup_repository

After the repository is set up, you should install the MariaDB-server package.

yum install -y MariaDB-server

For more information about installing MariaDB .rpm files, visit https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/about-the-mariadb-rpm-files/.

For more information about MariaDB Enterprise, visit https://mariadb.com/products/mariadb-enterprise and for help using MariaDB, please contact MariaDB Corporation: https://mariadb.com/about/contact.
