******************* SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ******************* Most tools require: \* Perl v5.8 or newer \* Bash v3 or newer \* Core Perl modules like Time::HiRes Tools that connect to MySQL require: \* Perl modules DBI and DBD::mysql \* MySQL 5.0 or newer Percona Toolkit officially supports and is tested on many popular Linux distributions and MySQL 5.0 through 5.6; see http://goo.gl/srHm7 for the list of supported platforms and versions.