Upgrade Mysql problems

[Justin Haugen]

We are trying to upgrade Mysql from 5.1.73-8 to 5.7 .  When trying to upgrade from 5.1.73-8 to 5.5 we are receiving a message stating that nothing is marked for install.  Please advise how to accomplish

[somethingblue]

Hi Justin,

If you are sure the repositories are in place, take a look at the following resources which may help:

Yum dependency available but not marked for install

How to Upgrade MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5 on CentOS 6.7

Hopefully one of those resources help. 

Cheers,

Branden