# installation of Percona on Centos 5.9

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**Created:** [January 22, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installation-of-percona-on-centos-5-9/1974 "2013-01-22T09:34:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Milamber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@Milamber](https://forums.percona.com/u/Milamber)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installation-of-percona-on-centos-5-9/1974/1 "2013-01-22T09:34:19Z")

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i am still a bit confused.  
i have been using this guide  
docs.1h./com/Percona\_MySQL\_installation\_tutorial  
I am having mysql ver 14.14 distrib 5.1.66  
what version of percona should i install  
yum --disableexcludes=main install Percona-SQL-server-SET-CORRECT-VERSION-HERE

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**Author:** ![niljoshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/niljoshi/32/16889_2.png) [@niljoshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/niljoshi)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installation-of-percona-on-centos-5-9/1974/2 "2013-01-29T06:23:38Z")

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Hi,

Generally, you should always go with the latest version as many bugs will be fixed in that.

[http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.1/installation/y](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.1/installation/y) um\_repo.html  
[http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/y](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/y) um\_repo.html