How To Install mariadb-server on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mariadb-server
mariadb-server is:
This is an empty package that depends on the current “best” version of mariadb-server (currently mariadb-server-10.6), as determined by the MariaDB maintainers. Install this package if in doubt about which MariaDB version you need. That will install the version recommended by the package maintainers.
MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and ease of use.
There are three methods to install mariadb-server
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mariadb-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mariadb-server
Install mariadb-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mariadb-server
Install mariadb-server Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mariadb-server
How To Uninstall mariadb-server on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mariadb-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mariadb-server
Uninstall mariadb-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mariadb-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mariadb-server
Remove mariadb-server Configurations and Data
To remove mariadb-server
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mariadb-server
Remove mariadb-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mariadb-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mariadb-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.