I recently upgraded my centos system via the desktop. mistake!

I had mariadb, phpmyadmin working just fine before - but after the upgrade they stopped.

I frantically googled and tried to follow some tutorials about mariadb * mysql reinstall untill I came to this one:

http://centosforge.com/node/how-replace-mysql-mariadb-centos-6-including-mysql-uninstall-instructions-and-yum-install

I executed this command to remove all of mysql:

yum remove mysql-server mysql-libs mysql-devel mysql*

and then tried to reinstall mysql:

as below - it crashes with errors as follows:

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[root@localhost ~]# yum install mysql-server mysql mysql-devel
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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.serverspace.co.uk
 * extras: centos.serverspace.co.uk
 * rpmforge: www.mirrorservice.org
 * updates: mirror.rmg.io
Setting up Install Process
Package mysql-server is obsoleted by MariaDB-server, trying to install MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 instead
Package mysql is obsoleted by MariaDB-server, trying to install MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 instead
Package mysql-devel is obsoleted by MariaDB-devel, trying to install MariaDB-devel-5.5.29-1.i686 instead
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package MariaDB-devel.i686 0:5.5.29-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: MariaDB-common for package: MariaDB-devel
---> Package MariaDB-server.i686 0:5.5.29-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10 for package: MariaDB-server
--> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10 for package: MariaDB-server
--> Running transaction check
---> Package MariaDB-common.i686 0:5.5.29-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: MariaDB-compat for package: MariaDB-common
---> Package MariaDB-server.i686 0:5.5.29-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10 for package: MariaDB-server
--> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10 for package: MariaDB-server
--> Running transaction check
---> Package MariaDB-compat.i686 0:5.5.29-1 set to be updated
---> Package MariaDB-server.i686 0:5.5.29-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10 for package: MariaDB-server
--> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10 for package: MariaDB-server
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 from mariadb has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10 is needed by package MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 (mariadb)
MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 from mariadb has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libssl.so.10 is needed by package MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 (mariadb)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10 is needed by package MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 (mariadb)
Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.10 is needed by package MariaDB-server-5.5.29-1.i686 (mariadb)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

[root@localhost ~]

If I now try to install libssl.10, i get asked to install glibc libraries. 2.17 and 2.7 - other discussions have said to stay clear of the as this will explode my system - I tried download 2.17 and it's huge - took ages to unzip.

Could someone please help me to completelty remove maraidb and install mysql - so that I don't get the above errors and pushed over to mariadb when I run:

    yum install mysql-server mysql mysql-devel

There are tons of material on how to install mariadb - but none i found so far that plainly explains how to go backwards to mysql.