# How to install percona repositories on amazon linux 2023

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**Category:** Percona Operator for MongoDB\
**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-install-percona-repositories-on-amazon-linux-2023/39927 "2025-12-22T13:56:03Z")\
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How to install percona repostories on amazon linux 2023 for taking backup of full config and shard servers

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Hi @Anikessh

Installing Percona software via the system’s corresponding package manager is recommended.

yum install -y [https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm](https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm)

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Bernier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/robert_bernier/32/1367_2.png) [@Robert\_Bernier](https://forums.percona.com/u/Robert_Bernier)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-install-percona-repositories-on-amazon-linux-2023/39927/5 "2025-12-22T16:49:03Z")

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Hello Anikessh,

Unfortunately, while Percona postgres is supported on various linux flavours of Debian and Redhat derivatives, Amazon Linux 2023 is not one of them as it is a hybrid of redhat/centos/fedora.

_**However, that being said you CAN install our [tarball](https://docs.percona.com/postgresql/17/tarball.html) which does have everything you need and will work on Amazon Linux 2023**_

Beware, there are caveats that you should read about first. The openssl version for instance is something to keep in mind.

In addition to reading the aforementioned [documentation](https://docs.percona.com/postgresql/17/tarball.html) you can install the tarball distribution in the following manner on Amazon Linux 2023.

`dnf install -y net-tools less wget acl readline-devel passwd openssl tar`

```auto
useradd postgres -m
passwd postgres

```

`mkdir -p /opt/pgdistro/`  
`chown postgres:postgres /opt/pgdistro/`

`wget https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/postgresql-distribution-17/17.7/binary/tarball/percona-postgresql-17.7-ssl3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`

`tar -xvf percona-postgresql-17.7-ssl3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz -C /opt/pgdistro/`

`mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql/data`  
`chown postgres:postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data`

sudo as postgres and execute the following:

`/opt/pgdistro/percona-postgresql17/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data`  
`/opt/pgdistro/percona-postgresql17/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start`

```auto
export PATH=:/opt/pgdistro/percona-haproxy/sbin/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-patroni/bin/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-pgbackrest/bin/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-pgbadger/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-pgbouncer/bin/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-pgpool-II/bin/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-postgresql17/bin/:/opt/pgdistro/percona-etcd/bin/:/opt/percona-perl/bin/:/opt/percona-tcl/bin/:/opt/percona-python3/bin/:$PATH

```

`export PAGER=less`

Finally, test

`psql --version`

regards

Robert