Forgot to mention: A bug report related to this issue is here: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3882 On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:03:35 -0500 Daniel Bartholomew <dbart@mariadb.org> wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:05:22 -0500 Aaron Anderson <anderson.aaron@gmail.com> wrote: Aaron> Gang, Aaron> Aaron> I've installed MariaDB on several Debian/Ubuntu systems Aaron> in the past few months, without any issues. Aaron> Aaron> ~2 days ago on an Unbuntu 12.10 system did an apt-get Aaron> update/upgrade/dist-upgrade. I believe that MariaDB was Aaron> updated in that process. After the updates, mysql was Aaron> "gone" My apps couldn't find it, it wasn't running, etc. Aaron> I was in a hurry so I had to fall back to the standard Aaron> mysql package so not a lot of into there. Aaron> Aaron> I built a new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server, added the Maria Aaron> repo, did an apt-get update/ugprade/dist-upgrade. Aaron> Rebooted. Aaron> Aaron> Aaron> Here's some output... I'm stuck in this loop. Daniel> <snip> Daniel> Daniel> The issue is that Ubuntu recently updated its MySQL packages to Daniel> 5.5.29. This is messing up dependency resolution and apt-get is Daniel> giving up. Daniel> Daniel> Here's an apt-get line that should allow you to install MariaDB Daniel> (split into multiple lines for the email): Daniel> Daniel> apt-get install mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-client-5.5 \ Daniel> mariadb-server-core-5.5 mariadb-common mariadb-server \ Daniel> libmariadbclient18 libdbd-mysql-perl mariadb-client-core-5.5 \ Daniel> libmysqlclient18=5.5.28-mariadb-a1~precise \ Daniel> mysql-common=5.5.28-mariadb-a1~precise Daniel> Daniel> For the last two packages I'm just specifying the MariaDB Daniel> version of the two packages that are causing the installation Daniel> problems. You might not need to specify all of the packages I Daniel> specify above, but it was easier to do so than to guess at Daniel> which specific packages to list. Daniel> Daniel> An "apt-get dist-upgrade" will cause problems with the above Daniel> (it'll try to upgrade libmysqlclient18 and mysql-common) but Daniel> this will let you get up and running until MariaDB 5.5.29 is Daniel> released. Daniel> Daniel> Thanks. Daniel> -- Daniel Bartholomew Google+ - http://gplus.to/dbart Twitter - http://twitter.com/daniel_bart MariaDB: An Enhanced Drop-in Replacement for MySQL Website - http://mariadb.org Twitter - http://twitter.com/mariadb Google+ - http://google.com/+mariadb Facebook - http://fb.com/MariaDB.dbms Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com