MariaDB was forked from MySQL when Oracle took over Sun Microsystems in 2010 and was born of the fear that Oracle would not adhere to the development ethos that was used by Sun. I discuss this in more detail in my blog post on MySQL alternative . There are a few gotchas with the new versioning system used by MariaDB and I’d recommend reading the blog post to familiarise yourself.
MariaDB has not yet made it into Ubuntu’s main repositories but is available as an add-in repository from MariaDB directly.
Installing MariaDB on Ubuntu couldn’t be easier – follow one of the below instructions for your version of Ubuntu.
Use the below commands to add the MariaDB repository to your Ubuntu 14.04 installation.
| apt - get install software - properties - common apt - key adv -- recv - keys -- keyserver hkp : / / keyserver .ubuntu .com : 80 0xcbcb082a1bb943db add - apt - repository 'deb http://mirror.stshosting.co.uk/mariadb/repo/10.0/ubuntu trusty main' |
Run the following commands to install MariaDB.
| apt - get update apt - get install mariadb - server |
Use the below commands to add the MariaDB repository to your Ubuntu 14.04 installation.
| apt - get install python - software - properties apt - key adv -- recv - keys -- keyserver hkp : / / keyserver .ubuntu .com : 80 0xcbcb082a1bb943db add - apt - repository 'deb http://mirror.stshosting.co.uk/mariadb/repo/10.0/ubuntu precise main' |
Run the following commands to install MariaDB.
| apt - get update apt - get install mariadb - server |
Install a different version of MariaDB or a use a different target operating system
MariaDB supports all common Linux distributions and they maintain a repository for each. You can see the full list of distro repositories on their repository configuration tool .
