# Is libmysqlclient.so.21 supposed to be provided by libperconaserverclient21 under Ubuntu PDPS 8.0? **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona Distribution for MySQL\ **Created:** [March 26, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-libmysqlclient-so-21-supposed-to-be-provided-by-libperconaserverclient21-under-ubuntu-pdps-8-0/14908 "2022-03-26T07:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ned.bingham-ctx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@ned.bingham-ctx](https://forums.percona.com/u/ned.bingham-ctx)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-libmysqlclient-so-21-supposed-to-be-provided-by-libperconaserverclient21-under-ubuntu-pdps-8-0/14908/1 "2022-03-26T07:24:23Z")
So we I have a PDPS 8.0 server running on Ubuntu 20.04 and I’m trying to find the Percona libmysqlclient21 libraries. This is comes up because I need to install another tool that depends on the lib. I’m obviously offered to install mysql-common and libmysqlclient21 from the main Ubuntu repositories, but I’m reluctant to do that without confirmation that’s not going to cause issues down the road. I’ve found a bug in packaging that was causing only libperconaserverclient21 to be included back last year ([[PS-7618] Nothing in the PS80 Repository currently provides libmysqlclient.so.21(libmysqlclient\_21)(64bit) - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-7618)) but that bug (and older ones I found) appears to be specific to RPM builds, not DEB. This instance is on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install using the percona-release tool and repositories. Am I missing something? Is this lib supposed to be included in libperconaserverclient21 and therefore there is a bug in the packaging? From reading the docs I see that RedHat/CentOS repositories from Percona offer a compat package (or used to) that may offer the lib but nothing similar appears to be offered for Debian/Ubuntu. Thought id ask her to make sure it wasn’t just me before I submitted a bug. Thanks for any pointers! ---
**Author:** ![Evgeniy\_Patlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/evgeniy_patlan/32/41_2.png) [@Evgeniy\_Patlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Evgeniy_Patlan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-libmysqlclient-so-21-supposed-to-be-provided-by-libperconaserverclient21-under-ubuntu-pdps-8-0/14908/2 "2022-03-28T10:56:00Z")
Hi @ned.bingham-ctx All packages are included in to the repo and you can install them from here: [Percona Repo](https://repo.percona.com/pdps-8.0/apt/pool/main/p/percona-server/) ---
**Author:** ![ned.bingham-ctx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@ned.bingham-ctx](https://forums.percona.com/u/ned.bingham-ctx)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-libmysqlclient-so-21-supposed-to-be-provided-by-libperconaserverclient21-under-ubuntu-pdps-8-0/14908/3 "2022-03-28T17:44:33Z")
Hi @Evgeniy_Patlan! I am already using the repo and installed PDPS using what I interpreted as the documented/recommended method: 1. installed latest `percona-release` (1.0-27.generic at the time) 2. executed `percona-release setup -y pdps-8.0` 3. Installed Percona Server and other packages via apt: `apt install percona-server-server percona-xtrabackup-80 percona-toolkit percona-mysql-shell libperconaserverclient21-dev pmm2-client` The link you provided just confirms that only a package named `libperconaserverclient21` is available. However, I have that installed and it does not include `libmysqlclient.so.21` and future package installs that required `libmysqlclient.so.21` requested the install of the lib from the main Focal repositories instead of the PDPS repo. That leads me to think that - from what I can tell - none of the packages in the PDPS Focal repository claim to or actually provide `libmysqlclient.so.21`. I was hoping to find out - before submitting a bug - whether this was intentional or an error. If intentional, I’d assume that the Ubuntu Focal `libmysqlclient21` is the correct choice and thus install it despite it being slightly ahead in terms of version as compared to PDPS (8.0.28 vs 8.0.27) and I wouldn’t bother with a bug report. I guess I can kind of answer my own question since `libmysqlclient21` appears to be in the RPM version of the PDPS (or at least the PS-80) packages/repos, its likely safe for me to assume that it should be in the Ubuntu version too. Since (1) I’m already using the repo and (2) `libperconaserverclient21` is installed yet no `libmysqlclient.so.21` and (3) `libmysqlclient21` is not advertised/found in the other packages provided. Therefor, I’m guessing it _IS_ a bug since evidence points to it being intended to be there (due to it supposedly being there in the RPM version based on PS-7618) and thus I’ll work on submitting it.