How To Install mariadb-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mariadb-common
mariadb-common is:
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.
Package: mariadb-common Architecture: all Version: 1:10.3.22-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/database Source: mariadb-10.3 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 75 Depends: mysql-common (>= 5.6.25) Filename: pool/universe/m/mariadb-10.3/mariadb-common_10.3.22-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 15636 MD5sum: 9bc57548dbbbf60485994bbc7a34ee5f SHA1: 4c22d6667c9ca0fec5789a7165aa35b4939a3b6c SHA256: 468f170751ec841d66dde7906067e2b4de1794633536bc0e58a0156477b9ab94 Homepage: https://mariadb.org/ Description-en: MariaDB common metapackage 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-common
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-common 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-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mariadb-common
Install mariadb-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mariadb-common
Install mariadb-common 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-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mariadb-common
How To Uninstall mariadb-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mariadb-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mariadb-common
Uninstall mariadb-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mariadb-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mariadb-common
Remove mariadb-common Configurations and Data
To remove mariadb-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mariadb-common
Remove mariadb-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mariadb-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mariadb-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.