Installing percona-xtrabackup on RHEL6.2

mohc · December 30, 2020, 4:22pm

When installing percona-xtrabackup on RHEL 6.2 I get a dependancy error:

–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: percona-xtrabackup-2.2.11-1.el6.i686 (/percona-xtrabackup-2.2.11-1.el6.i686)
Requires: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

zlib is installed:

[mark@db1 ~]$ locate libz.so.1
/lib64/libz.so.1
/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
/opt/ohai-solo/embedded/lib/libz.so.1
/opt/ohai-solo/embedded/lib/libz.so.1.2.6

Has anyone else tried percona on RHEL 6.2?

jrivera · December 30, 2020, 4:32pm

Are you sure you are installing correct binaries? 32bit vs 64bit ones?

sheeplogh · December 30, 2020, 4:32pm

Maybe this is the cause.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0398.html

Due to missing information about the zlib version, some applications using
zlib could not work properly. The zlib.map version script, which provides
version information, has been added to the underlying source code and zlib now
works as expected. (BZ#754694)

I also had been in the same situation.
It was resolved by updating zlib from 1.2.3-27.el6 to 1.2.3-29.el6.

jrivera · December 30, 2020, 4:32pm

The reason is more likely related to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-server/+bug/1108016

Quoting the last comment by the lead dev:

Also this one:
https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.2/known_issues.html