How to install MySQL 5.6?

For older releases like 12.10:

(This release is End of Lifed, consider upgrading!)

I have prepared PPA with MySQL 5.6 packages based on MySQL 5.5 Debian packages. No guarantee that it will work right away, but I would be grateful if you can try it and report back success (or failure).

There are PPAs for MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6, both with latest upstream source.

MySQL 5.5: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/mysql-5.5

MySQL 5.6: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/mysql-5.6

Update: The MySQL 5.6 packages failed on clean install and that has been fixed. If you find more errors please contact me directly via launchpad, or on https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues

For 14.04 users:

Ubuntu 14.04 defaults to MySQL 5.5, but also has MySQL 5.6 available for installation from the universe archive. Installing 5.6 is as easy as specifying the version:

myuser@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-5.5 mysql-client-5.5
myuser@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
myuser@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6 mysql-client-5.6

Check the Tocker's site for more details