How to Install MySQL 5.7 or 5.6 or 5.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10

We are thankful of Mr Ondřej Surý which is maintains PPAs of MySQL servers for Ubuntu systems. This article will help you for installing MySQL 5.7 or 5.6 or 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10 systems. Ubuntu 16.04 have latest 5.7 in its default repositories.
Use one of following installation steps as per your requirement of MySQL version. Installation process will prompt for password twice. This will be root account password for your MySQL install.

Install MySQL 5.7

Use the following commands to install or upgrade MySQL 5.7 on your Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10 systems. At the last update of this tutorial MySQL 5.7.9 is latest available MySQL release.
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common $ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.7 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server 

Install MySQL 5.6

Use the following commands to install or upgrade MySQL 5.6 on your Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10 systems. Currently this is the most popular version used.
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common $ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.6 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server 
Verify installed version
rahul@tecadmin:~$ mysql --version   mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.19, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper 

Install MySQL 5.5

Use the following commands to install MySQL 5.5 on your Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10 systems. If not specifically required, we recommend to use higher version of MySQL than 5.5.
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common $ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.5 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server 

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