Installing Percona Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS

Installing Percona Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS

Installing Percona Server from Percona yum repository

1) Install the Percona repository

You can install Percona yum repository by running the following command as a root user or with sudo:

yum install http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-3/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

You should see some output such as the following:

Retrieving http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-3/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

   1:percona-release        ########################################### [100%]

  

Note :-

RHEL/Centos 5 doesn’t support installing the packages directly from the remote location so you’ll need to download the package first and install it manually with rpm:

wget http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-3/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivH percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm

2) Testing the repository

Make sure packages are now available from the repository, by executing the following command:

yum list | grep percona

You should see output similar to the following:

Percona-Server-55-debuginfo.x86_64          5.5.44-rel37.3.el6           percona-release-x86_64

Percona-Server-client-55.x86_64             5.5.44-rel37.3.el6           percona-release-x86_64

Percona-Server-devel-55.x86_64              5.5.44-rel37.3.el6           percona-release-x86_64

Percona-Server-server-55.x86_64             5.5.44-rel37.3.el6           percona-release-x86_64

Percona-Server-shared-55.x86_64             5.5.44-rel37.3.el6           percona-release-x86_64

Percona-Server-shared-compat.x86_64         5.1.68-rel14.6.551.rhel6     percona-release-x86_64

Percona-Server-test-55.x86_64               5.5.44-rel37.3.el6           percona-release-x86_64

3) Install the packages

You can now install Percona Server by running:

yum install Percona-Server-server-55

Installing Percona Server using downloaded rpm packages

1) Download the packages of the desired series for your architecture from the download page.

   The easiest way is to download bundle which contains all the packages. Following example will

   download Percona Server 5.5.44-37.3 release packages for CentOS 6:

  

wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.5/Percona-Server-5.5.44-37.3/binary/redhat/6/x86_64/Percona-Server-5.5.44-37.3-r729fbe2-el6-x86_64-bundle.tar

2) You should then unpack the bundle to get the packages:

tar xvf Percona-Server-5.5.44-37.3-r729fbe2-el6-x86_64-bundle.tar

After you unpack the bundle you should see the following packages:

$ ls *.rpm

Percona-Server-55-debuginfo-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Percona-Server-client-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Percona-Server-devel-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Percona-Server-server-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Percona-Server-shared-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Percona-Server-test-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

3) Now you can install Percona Server by running:

rpm -ivh Percona-Server-server-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh Percona-Server-client-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh Percona-Server-shared-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

This will install only packages required to run the Percona Server. To install all the packages (for debugging, testing, etc.) you should run:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

Running Percona Server

service mysql start

service mysql status

service mysql stop

service mysql restart

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Uninstalling Percona Server

To completely uninstall Percona Server you’ll need to remove all the installed packages and data files.

1) Stop the Percona Server service

service mysql stop

2)Remove the packages

yum remove Percona-Server*

3) Remove the data and configuration files

rm -rf /var/lib/mysql

rm -f /etc/my.cnf