# installation fails due to 5.1.69-1.el6\_4 to absent failed:

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [December 15, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installation-fails-due-to-5-1-69-1-el6-4-to-absent-failed/3151 "2013-12-15T10:25:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installation-fails-due-to-5-1-69-1-el6-4-to-absent-failed/3151/1 "2013-12-15T10:25:09Z")

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I’m trying to install Percona Cluster via puppet.  
OS : CentOS 6  
keep getting this error  
[B]Error: Execution of ‘/bin/rpm -e mysql-libs-5.1.69-1.el6\_4.x86\_64’ returned 1: error: Failed dependencies:  
libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit) is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6\_1.x86\_64  
libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient\_16)(64bit) is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6\_1.x86\_64  
mysql-libs is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6\_1.x86\_64

Error: /Stage[main]/Profile::Db::Percona::Cluster::Packages/Package[mysql-libs]/ensure: change from 5.1.69-1.el6\_4 to absent failed: Execution of ‘/bin/rp  
m -e mysql-libs-5.1.69-1.el6\_4.x86\_64’ returned 1: error: Failed dependencies:  
libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit) is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6\_1.x86\_64  
libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient\_16)(64bit) is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6\_1.x86\_64  
mysql-libs is needed by (installed) postfix-2:2.6.6-2.2.el6\_1.x86\_64  
Error: Execution of ‘/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-client-56’ returned 1:  
Error Downloading Packages:  
1:Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-shared-56-5.6.14-25.1.596.rhel6.x86\_64: failure: Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-shared-56-5.6.14-25.1.596.rhel6.x86\_64.rpm from percona[/B]

I also tried 5.5 version same issue.

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installation-fails-due-to-5-1-69-1-el6-4-to-absent-failed/3151/2 "2013-12-20T08:26:56Z")

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In order to satisfy dependencies for libmysqlclient.so.16 - you need to install the Percona-Server-shared-compat package first.