I've already installed Debian on two fresh partitions ;)
Your link was useful. MySQL should be adequate for current project.
I had focused on MariaDB for 2 reasons:
1. A now abandoned project had a dependency on MariaDB (it was an
intrinsically networked app but I was going to attempt to simulate
on a single computer).
2. A current project involves importing a JSON file to a relational
database and had recalled an article reporting that capability for
MariaDB. One of the links pointed to says MySQL can do that.
I'll focus first on MySQL. I'll also do a MariaDB as planned. I suspect
there's at least a documentation bug that can throw a newbie a curve.
On 07/01/2018 04:52 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
Before you go to the trouble of installing both consider reading up on
the differences:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mariadb+vs+mysql&t=canonical&ia=web
On 2018-07-01 02:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
Reading the man page for dpkg-reconfigure lead to reading debconf-show
which lead to further investigation.
Which led to doubts about integrity/consistency of my complete system.
One of the suggestions from another list suggested purging mariadb and
installing mysql. Not sure if I muddled that operation.
I have enough disk to create 2 more partitions; one for installing
mariadb and one for installing mysql. Both will be as minimalist as
practical. That will allow keeping complete records of what and when I
do things. I suspect I've triggered some "corner case" bug.
On 06/30/2018 03:50 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
mariadb-server is a meta package pointing to the latest version of
mariadb
in the repository so it may not have of the configure scripts. Try
running
'dpkg-reconfigure mariadb-server-10.1'
Of course I have I have no idea if this is actually why its not
reconfiguring.... just a thought.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net>
wrote:
I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current.
About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find a
tutorial
which was a close enough match to my system.
I use Debian 9 with MATE.
I found:
https://www.tecmint.com/install-mariadb-in-debian/
https://www.linode.com/docs/databases/mariadb/mariadb-setup-debian/
Using the official Debian repository:
apt-get install software-properties-common
apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
There seemed to be no problems.
*BUT* both references auto-magically go to a GUI setup screen.
It was suggested in another forum that I (as root) do:
dpkg-reconfigure debconf
dpkg-reconfigure mariadb-server
The first appeared to run.
The second did nothing. No warnings. No error messages. Just
returned to
prompt.
Ideas.
TIA
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