Hi, You are correct. I also moved to MariaDB after knowing the reason behind the MariaDB formation. I was just trying to find why Debian hasn't included MariaDB which was quite ready in 2012-2013. Thank you for your answers. Regards, Balamurugan R On 08/04/2013 09:37 PM, maderios wrote:
On 08/04/2013 05:51 PM, David Guntner wrote:maderios grabbed a keyboard and wrote:On 08/04/2013 07:14 AM, Balamurugan wrote:Dear Team,I am a highly admired fan of free software movement and its philosophy.I am having a doubt in Debian 7.1 stable release about MySQL addition.Since MariaDB has become the open source replacement for MySQL, why was MariaDB not included in the latest release? Is there any reason behind?Since now MySQL is a part of Oracle, I believe we need to move towards MariaDB and support it fully.Hi I agree with you. I don't like to wait... I don't understand myself whyMariadb is not available in Debian. Opensuse, Fedora, Wikipedia migratedfrom Mysql to Mariadb, 100% free software. I downloaded and installedofficial .deb from Mariadb site. It works with Wheezy and Jessie, on my two PC. I use it with Digikam and Amarok. Mariadb works like Mysql, samecommands. Installation keeps mysql-common and libmysqlclient18.If you're really keen on using it Right Now instead of waiting to see if they're going to include it as part of the Debian distribution at some point, the nice folks at MariaDB do have a package repository for Debian systems that you can add to your system and then you can use apt-get or whatever to install it. Their website provides instructions on how to do this.HiAbout *I downloaded and installed official .deb from Mariadb site*, I have not been clear enough, sorry : I added official Mariadb .deb repository to download packages:deb http://mirrors.linsrv.net/mariadb/repo/5.5/debian wheezy main It works for Jessie too. Greetings