Percona MySQL Deinstall

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MySQL Deinstall

Assumptions

Percona MySQL has been installed using yum/dnf

Stop MySQL

sudo systemctl stop mysql

Deinstall (yum/dnf)

yum is now considered deprecated (2026) hence only dnf is shown (for RHEL 6 or 7, replace dnf with yum in commands below)

yum

dnf

Work out what to deinstall...

dnf list installed | grep percona

Deinstall MySQL Shell and XtraBackup first...

sudo dnf remove percona-xtrabackup-84

This is also likely to remove unused dependencies: lz4, perl-DBD-MySQL, perl-DBI, zstd

sudo dnf remove percona-mysql-shell

sudo dnf remove percona-server-server

This is also likely to remove unused dependencies: libatomic, percona-icu-data-files, percona-server-client, percona-server-shared, percona-telemetry-agent

For versions earlier than 8.0 you may need one of the alternate commands...sudo dnf remove Percona-Server-serversudo dnf remove Percona-Server-server-57.x86_64

Cleanup

sudo rm /var/log/mysqld.log

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/*

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