How To Install proxysql on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxysql on Rocky Linux 8.
What is proxysql
ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL and forks (like Percona Server and MariaDB).
We can use yum or dnf to install proxysql on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proxysql.
Install proxysql on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install proxysql using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install proxysql
Install proxysql on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install proxysql using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install proxysql
How To Uninstall proxysql on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the proxysql package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove proxysql
proxysql Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/proxysql.cnf
/usr/bin/proxysql
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/4226bb34e059b8a8f3f4c4b7c7c090b35443d0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/proxysql.service
/usr/share/doc/proxysql
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/FAQ.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.2.2.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.2.3.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.2.4.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.3.0.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.3.0g.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.3.2.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.3.3.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/ProxySQL_v1.4.4.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/README.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/RUNNING.md
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/Standard_ProxySQL_Admin.txt
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/Stats_API.txt
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/command_line_options.txt
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/global_variables.txt
/usr/share/doc/proxysql/query_parser.txt
/usr/share/licenses/proxysql
/usr/share/licenses/proxysql/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/proxysql.1.gz
/usr/share/proxysql
/usr/share/proxysql/tools
/usr/share/proxysql/tools/proxysql_galera_checker.sh
/usr/share/proxysql/tools/proxysql_galera_writer.pl
/var/lib/proxysql
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxysql on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.