How To Install mariadb-server on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server on Ubuntu 20.04.
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-10.3), 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.
Package: mariadb-server Architecture: all Version: 1:10.3.22-1ubuntu1 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: 67 Depends: mariadb-server-10.3 (>= 1:10.3.22-1ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/m/mariadb-10.3/mariadb-server_10.3.22-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 12668 MD5sum: 1f0c8ce00eef2cee35d185e234c44d93 SHA1: 5f8cc3e3f8864fb91cd99e0e9e5cf2a640266be9 SHA256: d0f4f01f6f86fd21c28e0d8f3de69d97890bff8b49a77601ad3a76177a548f6b Homepage: https://mariadb.org/ Description-en: MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) This is an empty package that depends on the current “best” version of mariadb-server (currently mariadb-server-10.3), 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 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-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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-server package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
