About the MariaDB RPM Files

Provides an overview of the RPM packages available for MariaDB, listing the various RPMs such as server, client, backup, and shared libraries, and explaining their contents and dependencies.

Available RPM Packages

The available RPM packages depend on the specific MariaDB release series.

List of RPM Packages in MariaDB

Enterprise Server

The following RPMs are in MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.8:

Package Name	Description
galera-4	The WSREP provider for Galera 4
galera-4-debuginfo	Debuginfo for galera-4
MariaDB-backup	mariadb-backup is a command-line utility for creating consistent and reliable backups of MariaDB databases, supporting full and incremental backup options
MariaDB-backup-debuginfo	Debuginfo for mariadb-backup
MariaDB-client	Client tools like mariadb CLI, mariadb-dump, and others
MariaDB-client-compat	Symbolic links from old MySQL tool names to MariaDB, like mysqladmin → mariadb-admin or mysql → mariadb. Good to have if you are using MySQL tool names in your scripts
MariaDB-client-debuginfo	Debuginfo for client tools like mariadb CLI, mariadb-dump, and others
MariaDB-columnstore-cmapi	MariaDB ColumnStore cluster management API (CMAPI) and command line tool
MariaDB-columnstore-engine	The MariaDB ColumnStore storage engine
MariaDB-columnstore-engine-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-columnstore-engine
MariaDB-common	Character set files and /etc/my.cnf
MariaDB-common-debuginfo	Debuginfo for character set files and /etc/my.cnf
MariaDB-cracklib-password-check	The cracklib_password_check password validation plugin
MariaDB-cracklib-password-check-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the cracklib_password_check password validation plugin
MariaDB-devel	Development headers and static libraries
MariaDB-devel-debuginfo	Debuginfo for development headers and static libraries
MariaDB-gssapi-server	The gssapi authentication plugin
MariaDB-gssapi-server-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the gssapi authentication plugin
MariaDB-hashicorp-key-management	Encryption plugin that uses Hashicorp Vault for storing encryption keys for MariaDB Data-at-Rest encryption
MariaDB-hashicorp-key-management-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-hashicorp-key-management
MariaDB-provider-bzip2	BZip2 compression support in the server and storage engines
MariaDB-provider-bzip2-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-provider-bzip2
MariaDB-provider-lz4	LZ4 compression support in the server and storage engines
MariaDB-provider-lz4-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-provider-lz4
MariaDB-provider-lzma	LZMA compression support in the server and storage engines
MariaDB-provider-lzma-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-provider-lzma
MariaDB-provider-lzo	LZO compression support in the server and storage engines
MariaDB-provider-lzo-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-provider-lzo
MariaDB-provider-snappy	Snappy compression support in the server and storage engines
MariaDB-provider-snappy-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-provider-snappy
MariaDB-rocksdb-engine	The MyRocks storage engine
MariaDB-rocksdb-engine-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the MyRocks storage engine
MariaDB-s3-engine	The S3 storage engine, which allows one to archive MariaDB tables in Amazon S3 (or any third-party public or private cloud that implements S3 API), but still have them accessible in MariaDB in read-only mode
MariaDB-s3-engine-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the S3 storage engine
MariaDB-server	The server and server tools, like myisamchk and mariadb-hotcopy are here
MariaDB-server-compat	Symbolic links from old MySQL server executable names to MariaDB, like mysqld -> mariadbd or mysql_install_db -> mariadb-install-db. Good to have if you are using MySQL tool names in your scripts
MariaDB-server-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the server and server tools, like myisamchk and mariadb-hotcopy are here
MariaDB-shared	Dynamic client libraries
MariaDB-shared-debuginfo	Debuginfo for dynamic client libraries
MariaDB-spider-engine	The Spider storage engine
MariaDB-spider-engine-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the Spider storage engine

Additionally, the following RPMs are available in the MariaDB Enterprise Unsupported repository:

Package Name	Description
MariaDB-connect-engine	The CONNECT storage engine
MariaDB-connect-engine-debuginfo	Debuginfo for the CONNECT storage engine
MariaDB-connect-engine-jdbc	Connect storage engine JDBC interface used to interact with external DBMS via Java connector
MariaDB-test	mysql-client-test executable, and mysql-test framework with the tests
MariaDB-test-debuginfo	Debuginfo for MariaDB-test

Community Server

Removed RPM Packages

Occasionally, RPM packages are removed from MariaDB. This could be because they are no longer needed, or because they were for features or storage engines that have been removed from MariaDB.

Some examples of removed RPMs are:

Package Name	Description
MariaDB-compat	Old shared client libraries, removed in MariaDB 11.4 as they were no longer needed
MariaDB-tokudb-engine	The TokuDB storage engine. It was disabled in MariaDB 10.5 and removed in MariaDB 10.6

Installing RPM Packages

Preferably, you should install MariaDB RPM packages using the package manager of your Linux distribution, for example yum orzypper. But you can also use the lower-level rpm tool.

Actions Performed by RPM Packages

Users and Groups Created

When the mariadb-server RPM package is installed, it will create a user and group named mysql, if it does not already exist.

See Also

• Installing MariaDB with yum

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