On 29 August 2012 19:45, Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Andrew Worsley wrote:
Then many of the MySQL people forked / produced MariaDB after seeing what Oracle was doing to MySQL.
It's just that most people don't know that MariaDB doesn't have the brand recognition and that people don't know that MariaDB is aiming to be as much a drop in replacement for MySQL as possible. I think they claim 99% compatible... I assume Oracle wants people to remain in ignorance as well.
apt-cache search mariadb apt-cache search maria abakus - calculator for KDE libmng-dev - M-N-G library (Development headers) libmng1 - Multiple-image Network Graphics library maria - reachability analyzer for Algebraic System Nets maria-doc - documentation of Maria
Nope. Not there. Probably not available on the RHEL5/6 systems at work either, where we unfortunately have to live with oracle (and a bit of postgres and mysql).
-- Tim Connors
Hmm according to this site http://kb.askmonty.org/en/installing-mariadb-deb-files/ You have to add their repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file: e.g. # MariaDB repository list - created 2012-08-29 09:56 UTC # http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/ deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/MariaDB/repo/5.5/debian squeeze main deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/MariaDB/repo/5.5/debian squeeze main Don't know what the story is here - but perhaps it relates to the conflicts that you get with installation of files with similar/same names/locations as MySQL which is more widely used (at the moment at least :-) Andrew