I’ve started using Percona’s version of MySQL 5.1 and have run into a few issues trying to get other tools such as mytop or maatkit to install but have been having problems with RPM dependency’s. I found the solution on this guy’s blog. Basically, if you install the MySQL-client-percona, MySQL-percona, MySQL-server-percona, MySQL-shared-percona and Percona-XtraDB, instead of installing MySQL-shared-percona, you should download and force upgrade (rpm -Uvh –force packagename) the MySQL-shared-compat library directly from MySQL. Just make sure you get the same version from MySQL that you’re using of the Percona MySQL.
