How To Install MariaDB

MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system, commonly used as an alternative for MySQL as the database portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. These tutorials will explain how to install and test MariaDB on your server. Choose your operating system to get started.

CentOS

Debian

Rocky Linux

Ubuntu

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