Installing for ARM64 - Missing Telemetry Agent

MySQL & MariaDB Percona Server for MySQL 8.0
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Hi all,
I’ve read the announcement about Percona Server for MySQL packages for ARM64 @ Percona Server for MySQL and Percona XtraBackup Now Available for ARM64 and trying to follow the instructions but hitting a wall with the telemetry dependency.

Failed dependencies:

  •    percona-telemetry-agent is needed by percona-server-server-8.0.37-29.1.el9.aarch64*

There isn’t a package for the telemetry agent listed on the downloads page @ Software Downloads - Percona so I also tried the article linked on the announcement @ Downloaded RPM packages - Percona Server for MySQL for downloading the entire release bundle but then hit the same dependency issue:

Error:

  • Problem: conflicting requests*
    • nothing provides percona-telemetry-agent needed by percona-server-server-8.0.37-29.1.el9.aarch64 from @commandline*

All I can find about the agent is the Github repo @ GitHub - percona/telemetry-agent but can’t seem to find if this is the correct agent.

Could anyone please shed some light on what I’ve missed?

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Hi @Tobias_Wilson
Thanks for pointing this issue out.

We have fixed it for downloads area, so now the “percona-telemetry-agent” is present in the list of files for all OS. Fixing the issue for bundles would require some time.

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Also please note that it is also possible to download packages from packaging repository Percona Repo

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Thanks for you reply and apologies for my delay in replying.

I can confirm that I was able to complete the installation now and is much simpler than compiling from source. Thank you very much.

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Ran into the same issue but I wanted to disable telemetry as per documentation but looks like is not possible. Is this expected?

 $ cat /etc/os-release  | grep PRETTY_NAME
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"

$  apt-cache policy percona-server-server
percona-server-server:
  Installed: 8.0.28-20-1.bookworm
  Candidate: 8.0.40-31-1.bookworm

$ echo $PERCONA_TELEMETRY_DISABLE
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$ PERCONA_TELEMETRY_DISABLE=1 apt install percona-server-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 percona-server-server : Depends: percona-telemetry-agent but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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you should update percona-release package and it will enable telemetry repo.
Or just enable telemetry repo manually: percona-release enable telemetry release

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Is there any way to install percona server without having to enable the telemetry release?

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Hey @egezon
Telemetry was added as the requirement so you need to install it but you can disable sending telemetry.

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Yeah @egezon , please see follow-up reply to the github issue: Cannot disable PERCONA_TELEMETRY during installation · Issue #116 · percona/telemetry-agent · GitHub