Configuring Percona Repositories with percona-release¶

DEB-Based GNU/Linux Distributions¶

If you are running a DEB-based distribution, such as Debian or Ubuntu, use the apt package manager to install the percona-release official package:

1. Fetch the repository package:

   $ wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb
   

2. Install the downloaded repository package with dpkg

   $ sudo dpkg -i percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb
   

3. Once you install this package the Percona repositories should be added. You can check the repository setup in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/percona-release.list file.

With percona-release package installed, run the percona-release command to set up the repository that contains the Percona product that you intend to install.

RPM-Based GNU/Linux Distributions¶

If you are running a RPM-based distribution, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, use the yum package manager, by running the following command as the root user or with sudo:

$ sudo yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm

With percona-release package installed, run the percona-release command to set up the repository that contains the Percona product that you intend to install.

Commands¶

Available commands are enable, enable-only, disable, and setup:

• enable command turns on an additional Percona repository location. For example, the following command enables the ps-80 release repository location:

  $ sudo percona-release enable ps-80 release
  

• enable-only command turns off all Percona repository locations, and enables the listed repository location after that. The following example first disables all Percona repository locations and then enables psmdb-40 experimental:

  $ sudo percona-release enable-only psmdb-40 experimental
  

• disable disables the specified repositories (or just all of them). For example, following command will disable all repository locations:

  $ sudo percona-release disable all
  

• setup <PRODUCT> command  disables all current Percona repository locations, then enables the correct release repositories given a product use, and updates the platform’s package manager database. <PRODUCT> is the only parameter of this command, and it can be chosen from the following list: ps56, ps57, ps80, psmdb34, psmdb36, psmdb40, pxb80, pxc56, pxc57, pxc80 (the names are self explanatory). Following example will disable all Percona repository locations and then enable the release repository for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0:

  $ percona-release setup ps80
  

Repository locations¶

Repository location may contain two parts: a repository and a component. Available repositories are original, ps-80, pxc-80, psmdb-40, and tools.

• original repository is the place to get Percona’s products of the previous versions which haven’t yet reach their end of life and are still supported, such as Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 and 5.7, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 and 3.6, etc.
• ps-80 repository hosts packages for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.
• pxc-80 repository is for Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 packages.
• psmdb-40 repository is hosting Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 packages.
• tools repository hosts all other products and tools: Percona XtraBackup 8.0, Percona Toolkit, PMM Client, ProxySQL, etc.

Components¶

By using a component you may choose to use either the GA version of the selected product or its beta version. percona-release recognizes release (used by default), testing, and experimental components.

For example, to prepare your system for installation of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, run percona-release as follows:

$ sudo percona-release enable-only ps-80 release

To enable pre-release builds from the testing repository, run percona-release with the testing component.

$ sudo percona-release enable ps80 testing

This example enables installing a pre-release version of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.