A question has been posted to the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/ubuntu-1004-lts-server-and-mariadb-5523 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server and MariaDB 5.5.23 After installing fresh mariadb, I'm having troubles using some software compiled with the mysql support. For ex. mysql2 ruby gem: Incorrect MySQL client library version! This gem was compiled for 5.5.23-MariaDB but the client library is 5.1.61 Quick investigation took me into this conclusions: mariadb-client-5.5 introduces new libmariadbclient18, but depends on libdbd-mysql-perl which depends on libmysqlclient16. So after install we have 2 libraries: libmysqlclient.so.16(from original mysql) and libmysqlclient.so.18(from mariadb). And default libmysqlclient.so is symlinked to libmysqlclient.so.16 Can this be solved in some way? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org