How to upgrade MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5 as non-root user

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Issue

It is required that a non-root user run the install and upgrade from MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x

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