Hi, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-104-to-mariadb-105/ (and all other minor upgrade guides) contain these steps: 2. Stop MariaDB. 3. Uninstall the old version of MariaDB: On Debian, Ubuntu, and other similar Linux distributions, execute the following: sudo apt-get remove mariadb-server 4. Install the new version of MariaDB. I'm thinking to myself: doesn't it make more sense to instruct readers to 'dist-upgrade' on Ubuntu and Debian (which works because of the 'Replaces' in newer packages)? That would merge steps 3 and 4 (and maybe step 2 as well, because of stop_server() in preinst) into one command that could be easier to use for novice users. Sorry if I missed a detail that dist-upgrade does not take care of. -- With kind regards, William Edwards