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

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: