Mysql_config_editor - missing from latest pxc-84-lts

MySQL & MariaDB Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.x
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Hi guys,

I’ve recently installed a new Percona Mysql XtraDB Cluster but there seems to be no package which provides mysql_config_editor

These are the enabled repos

> percona-release show

The following repositories are enabled on your system:
prel - release
pxc-84-lts - release
telemetry - release
<\*> All done!

These are the installed packages on the system

> dpkg -l | grep -i percon
hi  libperconaserverclient22:amd64  1:8.4.8-8-1.noble                       amd64        Percona XtraDB Cluster database client library
hi  libperconaserverclient22-dev    1:8.4.8-8-1.noble                       amd64        Percona XtraDB Cluster database development files
ii  percona-release                 1.0-32.generic                          all          Package to install Percona gpg key and APT repos
ii  percona-telemetry-agent         1.0.11-1.noble                          amd64        Percona Telemetry Agent gathers information and metrics from Percona products installed on the host.
ii  percona-toolkit                 3.2.1-1                                 all          Command-line tools for MySQL and system tasks
ii  percona-xtrabackup              8.0.35-30-0ubuntu5                      amd64        Open source backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB
hi  percona-xtradb-cluster          1:8.4.8-8-1.noble                       amd64        Percona XtraDB Cluster with Galera
hi  percona-xtradb-cluster-client   1:8.4.8-8-1.noble                       amd64        Percona XtraDB Cluster database client binaries
hi  percona-xtradb-cluster-common   1:8.4.8-8-1.noble                       amd64        Percona XtraDB Cluster database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
hi  percona-xtradb-cluster-server   1:8.4.8-8-1.noble                       amd64        Percona XtraDB Cluster database server binaries

I was expecting to find libperconaserverclient24 as it happens on ps-84-lts but instead I only found the old libperconaserverclient22

> apt search libpercona*
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libperconaserverclient22/stable,now 1:8.4.8-8-1.noble amd64 [installed]
  Percona XtraDB Cluster database client library

libperconaserverclient22-dev/stable,now 1:8.4.8-8-1.noble amd64 [installed]
  Percona XtraDB Cluster database development files

After installation, I usually set the root password using mysql_config_editor, but it wasn’t installed, so I looked for which package in the Percona repositories provided that binary, and to my surprise, there was none!

> apt-file update && apt-file search mysql_config_editor
mysql-client-core-8.0: /usr/bin/mysql_config_editor  # incompatible with percona!! Not from Percona repos

> apt install mysql-client-core-8.0
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:
 mysql-client-core-8.0 : Conflicts: virtual-mysql-client-core
 percona-xtradb-cluster-client : Breaks: mysql-client-core-8.0
                                 Breaks: virtual-mysql-client-core
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

I also searched in the changelog, but I didn’t find any infos about this

2

mysql_config_editor is a part of libperconaserverclient22-dev. I could see this package is available in 8.4.7 whereas it is missing in current version 8.4.8. Are you able to report it to our JIRA platform? jira.percona.com

root@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-deb -c libperconaserverclient22-dev_8.4.7-7-1.noble_amd64.deb | grep -i mysql_conf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      5093 2026-01-09 20:04 ./usr/bin/mysql_config
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    164896 2026-01-09 20:04 ./usr/bin/mysql_config_editor
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2457 2026-01-09 20:04 ./usr/share/man/man1/mysql_config.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5832 2026-01-09 20:04 ./usr/share/man/man1/mysql_config_editor.1.gz
root@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-deb -c libperconaserverclient22-dev_8.4.8-8-1.noble_amd64.deb | grep -i mysql_conf
root@ubuntu:~$
3

Hi,

I’ll investigate the issue and follow up shortly.

Thank you.

5

I’ve opened this issue: Jira

6

The package libperconaserverclient24-dev have been uploaded to pxc repos.

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I can confirm that it works!

Thanks!