[PLUG] Problems installing MariaDB

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Sun Jul 1 21:52:09 UTC 2018


Before you go to the trouble of installing both consider reading up on 
the differences:

  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mariadb+vs+mysql&t=canonical&ia=web

On 2018-07-01 02:56, Richard Owlett 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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       Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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