This is to help me remember how to get percona toolkit, so that I can get the grants information out of the mysql database – the database in mysql which keeps tracks of users, databases, and (in particular) grants, i.e. permissions.

I originally dug this up for use when I was migrating tarragon. But now I am working on migrating oregano from fedora to arch, and I will have to transfer the databases. I have finally learned (I admit I am slow) that one cannot expect to be able to move the database directory even from one release to another, let alone from one distribution to another. The only way to do this properly is to dump the databases, reinstall mariadb/mysql in the new place, and set it up, and then reimport the dumped databases.