I tried doing the same and am having the same problem.

I'm running Redhat 5.4 using MYSQL-Community 5.1.50

I tried installing the Percona Repo but that seems to want to install the Percona version of Mysql which I believe will overwrite my current installed version of MYSQL
Percona-SQL-client-50

Does anyone has any information on how I can upgrade my current version of XTRABACKUP from 1.0-56.rhel5 to xtrabackup-1.2-22.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

So, I found what I believe is a work around...

I downloaded and installed MYSQL-Client-Community version 5.1.50-1.rhel5

Once I did that I was able to install Xtrabackup 1.2-22 without any further issues.

Now, my question is, I had MYSQL-Server-Community installed.
WOuld doing this affect my current server installation?


[root@ems-mysql01 tmp]# rpm -Uhv MySQL-client-community-5.1.50-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:MySQL-client-community ########################################### [100%]
[root@ems-mysql01 tmp]# rpm -Uhv xtrabackup-1.2-22.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
warning: xtrabackup-1.2-22.rhel5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID cd2efd2a
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xtrabackup ########################################### [100%]

Thanks.

>>Now, my question is, I had MYSQL-Server-Community installed.
>>WOuld doing this affect my current server installation?

Don't know the answer for the above question.

Then few additional questions:

1. Why mysql client is required in the MySQL server to install xtrabackup 1.2?

2. For MySQL 5.1.50 Community server and innodb plugin ON what is the xtrabackup version recommended to install?

Thanks.

Anyone knows why mysql client is required in the MySQL server to install xtrabackup 1.2?