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Install from Percona Software repository

Ready-to-use packages are available from the Percona Server for MySQL software repositories and the download page .

The Percona yum repository supports popular RPM-based operating systems. The easiest way to install the Percona RPM repository is to install an RPM configuring yum and installing the Percona GPG key .

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Version changes

Starting with Percona Server 8.0.33-25, the RPM builds for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 contain ARM packages with the aarch64.rpm extension. This means that Percona Server for MySQL is available for users on ARM-based systems.

Supported platforms

Specific information on the supported platforms, products, and versions are described in Percona Software and Platform Lifecycle .

Red Hat Certified

Percona Server for MySQL is certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. This certification is based on common and secure best practices and successful interoperability with the operating system. Percona Server is listed in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog .

Install Percona Server for MySQL from Percona yum repository

For more information on the Percona Software repositories and configuring Percona Repositories with percona-release, see the Percona Software Repositories Documentation . Run the following commands as a root user or with sudo.

RHEL 8 and EL8 systems

RHEL 8 and other EL8 systems enable the MySQL module by default. This module hides the Percona-provided packages and the module must be disabled before installing Percona Server for MySQL. The installation instructions for RHEL 8 or later include this step.

RHEL 8 and other EL8 systems enable the MySQL module by default, which hides the Percona-provided packages. The first command disables this module. The second command uses yum to install the Percona repository from the Percona website. The third command uses the percona-release script to set up the ps-80 release series of Percona Server. The fourth command installs Percona Server for MySQL.

sudo yum module disable mysql
sudo yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
sudo percona-release setup ps-80
sudo yum install percona-server-server

Available storage engines

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes the MyRocks storage engine, which is installed as a plugin. For information on how to install and configure MyRocks, refer to the Percona MyRocks Installation guide.

TokuDB storage engine

Starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-19 (released 2022-05-12), the TokuDB storage engine has been removed from the installation packages and disabled in binary builds. For earlier versions or if you need TokuDB functionality, see the TokuDB version changes and TokuDB Installation guide for more information.

Percona yum Testing repository

Percona offers pre-release builds from our testing repository.

To subscribe to the testing repository, you enable the testing repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/percona-release.repo by updating the second section, ‘testing’ and set both percona-testing-$basearch and percona-testing-noarch to enabled = 1.

There are three sections in this file:

  • release

  • testing

  • experimental

You must install the Percona repository first if the installation has not been done already.