Install Percona Server for MySQL using downloaded RPM packages¶

Download the packages from Percona Product Downloads. If needed, Instructions for the Percona Product Download are available.

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.

The following example downloads Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.2-2 release x86_64 packages for RHEL 8.

Use wget to download the tar file.

$ wget https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-8.4/Percona-Server-8.4.0-1/binary/redhat/8/x86_64/Percona-Server-8.4.0-1-r238b3c02-el8-x86_64-bundle.tar

Unpack the bundle to get the packages:

$ tar xvf Percona-Server-8.4.0-1-r238b3c02-el8-x86_64-bundle.tar

To view a list of packages, run the following command:

$ ls *.rpm

The output should look like the following:

Expected output

percona-icu-data-files-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-mysql-router-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-mysql-router-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-client-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-client-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-debugsource-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-devel-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-rocksdb-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-rocksdb-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-server-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-server-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-shared-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-shared-compat-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-shared-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-test-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
percona-server-test-debuginfo-8.4.2-2.1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Install jemalloc with the following command, if needed:

$ wget https://repo.percona.com/yum/release/8/RPMS/x86_64/jemalloc-3.6.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

An EL8-based RHEL distribution or derivatives package installation requires the mysql module to be disabled before installing the packages:
```
$ sudo yum module disable mysql
```
Install all the packages (for debugging, testing, etc.) with the following command:
```
$ sudo rpm -ivh *.rpm
```
Note

When installing packages manually, you must make sure to resolve all dependencies and install any missing packages yourself.

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Last update: 2024-09-06