# XtraBackup Dependency Issue with Mysql 5.5.29

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-dependency-issue-with-mysql-5-5-29/2324>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [January 22, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-dependency-issue-with-mysql-5-5-29/2324 "2013-01-22T04:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrokenCrust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@BrokenCrust](https://forums.percona.com/u/BrokenCrust)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-dependency-issue-with-mysql-5-5-29/2324/1 "2013-01-22T04:11:15Z")

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I have a working installon of MySQL 5.5.28 on rhel 5 with XtraBackup 2.0.4

If I try to upgrade to MySQL 5.5.29 there is an error

rpm -Uhv MySQL-server-5.5.29-2.rhel5.x86\_64.rpmerror: Failed dependencies: mysql is needed by (installed) percona-xtrabackup-2.0.4-484.rhel5.x86\_64

NB: this method works fine for the last several upgrades.

If I uninstall Xtrabackup the upgrade works fine and MySQL 5.5.29 is installed and working but then it is not possible to install XtraBackup - the same error message is given.

NB: It is the same with XtraBackup 2.0.3 as well.

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**Author:** ![BrokenCrust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@BrokenCrust](https://forums.percona.com/u/BrokenCrust)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-dependency-issue-with-mysql-5-5-29/2324/2 "2013-01-24T04:12:31Z")

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Tried with 2.0.5 and have the same issue

rpm -Uhv MySQL-server-5.5.29-2.rhel5.x86\_64.rpmerror: Failed dependencies: mysql is needed by (installed) percona-xtrabackup-2.0.5-499.rhel5.x86\_64

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**Author:** ![BrokenCrust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@BrokenCrust](https://forums.percona.com/u/BrokenCrust)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-dependency-issue-with-mysql-5-5-29/2324/3 "2013-02-05T10:10:56Z")

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This is still an issue with the MySQL 5.5.30 release.

Does anyone know a workaround or have an idea if this will be fixed soon? I’m keen to upgrade MySQL to get recent security fixes; I can’t move to Percona Server.

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**Author:** ![Dennis\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Dennis\_B](https://forums.percona.com/u/Dennis_B)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-dependency-issue-with-mysql-5-5-29/2324/4 "2013-02-16T14:31:39Z")

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This is really a joke and renders percona xtrabackup useless.  
Doesn’t work with MySQL 5.5.30 and neither xtraback 2.0.5 nor 1.6.5…