Hi! If you're using CentOS, do consider checking out the testing packages available: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2013-February/009029.html Quick start: drop http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/mariadb/mariadb.repo into /etc/yum.repos.d/ and yum list mariadb\* Please let us know how it goes and report bugs to http://bugs.centos.org/ cheers, -colin -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ | twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles MariaDB: Community developed. Feature enhanced. Backward compatible. Download it at: http://www.mariadb.org/ Open MariaDB/MySQL documentation at the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/