Can't install MySQL 5.6 by RPM - mysql

Question

I'm trying to install MySQL 5.6 community edition from the RPM package I downloaded. I'm running on cloudera's CDH 4.5 virtual machine, which is CentOS 6.4. The VM came with MySQL 5.1.73 installed, the old versions of files seem to be blocking me from updating.
I already did this:
sudo yum remove mysql
and that worked just fine, without a problem. Then I deleted everything in /usr/lib/mysql, aka the data directory. So then I tried installing the new version:
[cloudera#localhost mysql]$ pwd
/home/cloudera/mysql
[cloudera#localhost mysql]$ ll
total 302660
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 23080383 Mar 17 02:39 MySQL-client-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 4573735 Mar 17 02:40 MySQL-devel-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 114192347 Mar 17 02:40 MySQL-embedded-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 86961692 Mar 17 02:41 MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 2398671 Mar 17 02:41 MySQL-shared-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 5180653 Mar 17 02:41 MySQL-shared-compat-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cloudera cloudera 73530987 Mar 17 02:42 MySQL-test-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
[cloudera#localhost mysql]$ sudo yum install MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
.....
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/README from install of MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-libs-5.1.73-3.el6_5.x86_64
file /usr/share/mysql/czech/errmsg.sys from install of MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-libs-5.1.73-3.el6_5.x86_64
......
So it looks like the old installation is blocking me, I tried to delete mysql-libs but...
[cloudera#localhost mysql]$ sudo yum remove mysql-libs
.....
pig noarch 0.11.0+33-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.14.el6 #cloudera-cdh4 120 M
postfix x86_64 2:2.6.6-2.2.el6_1 #anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2 9.7 M
redhat-lsb x86_64 4.0-7.el6.centos #base 0.0
redhat-lsb-compat x86_64 4.0-7.el6.centos #base 0.0
redhat-lsb-core x86_64 4.0-7.el6.centos #base 22 k
redhat-lsb-graphics x86_64 4.0-7.el6.centos #base 0.0
redhat-lsb-printing x86_64 4.0-7.el6.centos #base 0.0
solr noarch 4.4.0+69-1.cdh4.3.0.p0.4.el6 #cloudera-search 66 M
solr-mapreduce noarch 1.0.0-1.cdh4.3.0.p0.5.el6 #cloudera-search 55 M
sqoop noarch 1.4.3+62-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.15.el6 #cloudera-cdh4 7.7 M
sqoop2 noarch 1.99.2+85-1.cdh4.4.0.p0.62.el6 #cloudera-cdh4 7.8 M
sysstat x86_64 9.0.4-20.el6 #base 807 k
tomcat noarch 7.0.33-3.el6 #epel 303 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================================================
Remove 67 Package(s)
It went and listed a lot of major software that depends on mysql-libs. I don't want to reinstall tomcat, pig, hive, mahout, hue, oozie, flume, and cloudera manager. I have worked with those before, I know that they are a NIGHTMARE to get installed and configured correctly, so I really don't want to uninstall those.
So I thought maybe I should try an update instead,
[cloudera#localhost mysql]$ sudo yum update MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm
....
Examining MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64.rpm: MySQL-server-5.6.17-1.linux_glibc2.5.x86_64
Package MySQL-server not installed, cannot update it. Run yum install to install it instead.
No Packages marked for Update
It will not let me update it because I already removed it.
Would somebody please tell me how to install MySQL from these RPMs without uninstalling everything else?

Answer 1

Try to install shared-compat packages as you can see here.

Answer 2

I'm just going to re-write the answer for anybody else who comes across this.
Download the mysql yum repo if you don't already have it: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/file.php?id=450542
If you have an old version of mysql installed, just do a yum update mysql. You may also need to do yum update mysql-server.
If you uninstalled it, try to reinstall now that you have the new yum repo. If it still fails due to a Transaction check error, try deleting any files that it lists in conflict. Be careful not to delete any files you want to keep.
you may also need to do 'sudo yum update mysql-server' or 'sudo yum install mysql-server'. I did.
I will mark acfrai's answer correct to give him credit, he helped lead me to this information.