Source-Replica Tutorial

Last Update: January 2021

Exercise 2

In this exercise, you will: Install the Percona Yum repository, Percona Server 8.0, Percona Toolkit and other useful utilities.

• 2.1 - Install the Percona Yum Repo

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

• 2.2 - Install Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Repo

  This repo is needed for any additional dependency packages.

  yum install epel-release -y

• 2.3 - Install Percona Server 8.0

  We need to switch our repo to use the specific 8.0 series branch:

  percona-release setup ps80

  Then we can install Percona Server for MySQL 8.0:

  yum install percona-server-server percona-server-client percona-server-shared percona-server-shared-compat

  Now we can install the Percona Toolkit and other essential tools and libraries. ‘nc’ is the ‘netcat’ command line utility for doing quick transfers between servers.

  yum install percona-toolkit percona-xtrabackup-80 qpress nc