# Can Percona 5.5 be installed on Windows?

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-percona-5-5-be-installed-on-windows/4349 "2015-08-13T23:30:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![wharton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/wharton/32/1078_2.png) [@wharton](https://forums.percona.com/u/wharton)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-percona-5-5-be-installed-on-windows/4349/1 "2015-08-13T23:30:51Z")

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I have windows computer. I’m wondering if percona 5.5 can be installed in windows computer too?

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**Author:** ![scott.nemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/scott.nemes/32/5_2.png) [@scott.nemes](https://forums.percona.com/u/scott.nemes)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-percona-5-5-be-installed-on-windows/4349/2 "2015-08-14T16:24:13Z")

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Hi wharton;

No, Windows is not a supported platform for Percona Server.

However you may install Oracle MySQL if you really need to run it on Windows:  
[url][https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/[/url]](https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/%5B/url%5D)

-Scott

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**Author:** ![wharton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/wharton/32/1078_2.png) [@wharton](https://forums.percona.com/u/wharton)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-percona-5-5-be-installed-on-windows/4349/3 "2015-08-19T01:20:24Z")

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What are only platform that is supported by Percona server?

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**Author:** ![scott.nemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/scott.nemes/32/5_2.png) [@scott.nemes](https://forums.percona.com/u/scott.nemes)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-percona-5-5-be-installed-on-windows/4349/4 "2015-08-19T10:13:11Z")

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Hi wharton;

If you look at the downloads page, you can see a list of what platforms there are versions available for:

[url][https://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.5/LATEST/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.5/LATEST/%5B/url%5D)  
[URL=“[Download Percona Server for MySQL 5.6](https://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.6/LATEST/)”][https://www.percona.com/downloads/Pe...er-5.6/LATEST/[/URL]](https://www.percona.com/downloads/Pe...er-5.6/LATEST/%5B/URL%5D)

-Scott