[PLUG] Problems installing MariaDB

[Larry Brigman]

Just a btw.
The command 'script' can record your commands and the output.

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 2:56 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> Reading the man page for dpkg-reconfigure lead to reading debconf-show
> which lead to further investigation.
>
> Which led to doubts about integrity/consistency of my complete system.
> One of the suggestions from another list suggested purging mariadb and
> installing mysql. Not sure if I muddled that operation.
>
> I have enough disk to create 2 more partitions; one for installing
> mariadb and one for installing mysql. Both will be as minimalist as
> practical. That will allow keeping complete records of what and when I
> do things. I suspect I've triggered some "corner case" bug.
>
> On 06/30/2018 03:50 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> > mariadb-server is a meta package pointing to the latest version of
> mariadb
> > in the repository so it may not have of the configure scripts. Try
> running
> > 'dpkg-reconfigure mariadb-server-10.1'
> >
> > Of course I have I have no idea if this is actually why its not
> > reconfiguring.... just a thought.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current.
> >> About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find a
> tutorial
> >> which was a close enough match to my system.
> >>
> >> I use Debian 9 with MATE.
> >>
> >> I found:
> >>     https://www.tecmint.com/install-mariadb-in-debian/
> >>     https://www.linode.com/docs/databases/mariadb/mariadb-setup-debian/
> >>
> >> Using the official Debian repository:
> >>     apt-get install software-properties-common
> >>     apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
> >>
> >> There seemed to be no problems.
> >>
> >> *BUT* both references auto-magically go to a GUI setup screen.
> >>
> >> It was suggested in another forum that I (as root) do:
> >>     dpkg-reconfigure debconf
> >>     dpkg-reconfigure mariadb-server
> >>
> >> The first appeared to run.
> >> The second did nothing. No warnings. No error messages. Just returned to
> >> prompt.
> >>
> >> Ideas.
> >> TIA
>
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