How To Install mariadb-server on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server
on Kali Linux.
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-10.5), 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 Kali Linux. 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.
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install mariadb-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-server
using apt
by running the following command:
Install mariadb-server Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mariadb-server on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mariadb-server
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall mariadb-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mariadb-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove mariadb-server Configurations and Data
To remove mariadb-server
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
Dependencies
mariadb-server have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.