On CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora

  1. Install the repository package:

shell> sudo yum install http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-4/percona-release-0.1-4.noarch.rpm

You should see the following if successful:

Installed:
  percona-release.noarch 0:0.1-4

Complete!
  1. Make sure that Percona packages are available:
shell> sudo yum list | grep percona

You should see output similar to the following:

percona-release.noarch                     0.1-4                       @/percona-release-0.1-4.noarch
Percona-Server-55-debuginfo.x86_64         5.5.54-rel38.7.el7          percona-release-x86_64
Percona-Server-56-debuginfo.x86_64         5.6.35-rel81.0.el7          percona-release-x86_64
Percona-Server-57-debuginfo.x86_64         5.7.17-13.1.el7             percona-release-x86_64
...
  1. Install Percona Toolkit:
shell> ...

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