On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:09:47 -0800 (PST) Joerg Stephan <johe.stephan@ymail.com> wrote: Joerg> Hi there, Joerg> Joerg> Joerg> if you follow the instructions regarding Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the Joerg> instructions will nit lead to an succesfull installation. Joerg> apt-get will run into an unresolved dependency state, doing it Joerg> with aptitude you can resolve the dependency in an second step. Joerg> Maybe the issue should be fixed, or the docu should be updated. Using the instructions given by the repository tool for MariaDB 5.5, I just tried installing MariaDB on a new, fully updated, 12.04 machine that I'd never installed MariaDB on before, and I was successful. Here are the commands I ran, pasted from the output of the repository configuration tool: https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys \ --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xcbcb082a1bb943db sudo add-apt-repository \ 'deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/ubuntu precise main' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mariadb-server The commands all completed successfully. Could you send me the output of the failing apt-get command or other information that might help us figure out what is failing and why? Thanks. -- 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