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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.

Limitations

The RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and the compatible derivatives do not support TLSv1.3. This version requires OpenSSL 1.1.1, which is currently unavailable on this platform.

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 to make these packages visible. The following command disables the module:

$ sudo yum module disable mysql

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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.

The first command uses yum to install the Percona repository from the Percona website. The second command enables the ps-80 release series of the Percona Server. The third command allows the tools repository. This repository contains additional Percona software. The fourth command installs Percona Server for MySQL.

$ sudo yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
$ sudo percona-release enable-only ps-80 release
$ sudo percona-release enable tools release
$ sudo yum install percona-server-server

The first command uses yum to install the Percona repository from the Percona website. The second command uses the percona-release script to set up the ps-80 release series of Percona Server. The third command installs Percona Server for 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 comes with the TokuDB storage engine and MyRocks storage engine. These storage engines are installed as plugins.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-19 (2022-05-12)and higher do not support the TokuDB storage engine. We have removed the storage engine from the installation packages and disabled the storage engine in our binary builds. For more information, see TokuDB version changes.

For information on how to install and configure TokuDB, refer to the TokuDB Installation guide.

For information on how to install and configure MyRocks, refer to the Percona MyRocks Installation guide.

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.