Percona MySQL Server 8.0 on Rocky 9.6

MySQL & MariaDB Percona Server for MySQL 8.0
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My last Percona MySQL Server 8.0.x deploy was on 2025-06-17 on Rocky Linux 9.6.
Using percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm, which on that date was percona-release-1.0-30.noarch.rpm 27.6 KiB 2025-Feb-12 14:02.

Today on August 26 the Percona MySQL Server 8.0.x deploy on Rocky Linux 9.6 is failing.
Using percona-release-1.0-32.noarch.rpm 27.9 KiB 2025-Aug-21 12:37.
“Specified repository is not supported for current operating system!”

I don’t see a specific statement for Rocky 9.6 on https://www.percona.com/services/policies/percona-software-support-lifecycle .
Percona is still supporting RHEL clones.

Can Percona share an update on the latest support policy please?

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hey @MaartenE,

I suggest rolling back the percona-release package, as this may be a bug. I have asked the package manager about this, so he may come comment here.

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Hey @MaartenE ,

Could you please share the exact percona-release command that was used to enable the repository used to install the percona-server packages?

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Hi,

Installed https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm via yum.
And: percona-release setup ps80 -y

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Hi,

Ok with percona-release-1.0-30.noarch.rpm .

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There is a ps80 repository, but the addition of the “-y” option triggers the error message.

bash-5.1# percona-release setup ps80 -y
Specified repository is not supported for current operating system!

bash-5.1# percona-release setup ps80

  • Disabling all Percona Repositories
  • Enabling the Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 repository
  • Enabling the Percona Tools repository
    <*> All done!

bash-5.1# yum module disable mysql

bash-5.1# yum install percona-server-server

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@MaartenE , The correct way to use the “-y” option with setup command is as follows and this should work with the latest release also:
percona-release setup -y ps80

Thank you.

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Just did a fresh install of Percona Server 8.0.42 on Rocky Linux 9.6. I can report that my install went just fine with 0 issues. Here are the steps I took.

sudo dnf install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf update -y
sudo percona-release setup -y ps-80

Please make special note of where the -y was placed in the percona-release command. If the -y at the end of you command it will be seen as a repo, this is why saw “Specified repository is not supported for current operating system!”

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Thanks all.
I changed my ansible-playbook although it worked before.