Comments on: Switching MySQL for MariaDB on Ubuntu.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:51:51 +0000

I’ve not tried 5.2 yet, if there is a problem with the repo, that’s something the Maria team will have to fix, or the mirror your using.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:37:53 +0000

I don’t know how it was in 5.1 version, but in 5.2.3 repos are one mistake: in Pakages.gz are wrong ways to files, there should not be “binary/”

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:43:39 +0000

Hi,

With Karmic try removing all the mysql packages first….

sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-5.1 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common etc

I’m not 100% sure these are the correct package names as the 5.1 suffix has been dropped on more recent versions (as 5.0 is no longer supported).
If you run something like….

dpkg -l | grep mysql

It’ll list all installed packages matching ‘mysql’

Hope this helps!

By: Wai Wong

Wai Wong — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:24:07 +0000

Hello,

I’m getting for following error when I tried to replace mysql with mariadb. I’m running Ubuntu 9.10. Do you have any idea?

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server-5.1
—
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mariadb-server-5.1: Depends: mariadb-client-5.1 (>= 5.1.49-mariadb82) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mariadb-server-core-5.1 (>= 5.1.49-mariadb82) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages