Distributions Which Include MariaDB

The following is a partial list of distributions which include MariaDB in their package repositories. For these you can use the distribution's management system to install MariaDB.

The term "default" in the list below refers to the distribution's default relational or MySQL-type database.

Linux Distributions

• 4mLinux — Defaults to MariaDB, MariaDB 10.1 is available from 14.0
• Alpine Linux
• ALT Linux — MariaDB 5.5 included in 7.0.0, MariaDB is default from 8.1, which includes MariaDB 10.1
• Arch Linux — Features MariaDB 10.1, and replaced MySQL as a default
• Asiannux — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL in 7.
• Austrumi— Defaulted to MariaDB 5.3 in 2.4.8, 3.5.8 includes MariaDB 10.1
• BlackArch — Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2014.07.01, 2016.12.29 includes MariaDB 10.1
• BlueOnyx — 5209 defaults to MariaDB 5.5
• BlueStar — 4.8.4 defaults to MariaDB 10.1
• Bridge Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2013.6, 2015.02 includes MariaDB 10.0
• CentOS — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL in CentOS 7
• The Chakra Project — MariaDB replaced MySQL as default in 2013.05. 2016.02 includes MariaDB 10.1
• Debian — Jessie includes MariaDB 10.0, Stretch includes MariaDB 10.1
• Elastix —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 4.0.76
• Exherbo —Includes MariaDB 5.5
• Fedora — MariaDB 5.5 became the default relational database in Fedora 19. Fedora 21 includes MariaDB 10.0.
• Funtoo —Includes MariaDB 5.5
• Gentoo Linux
• Guix—0.12.0 includes MariaDB 10.1
• Hanthana— 19.1 defaulted to MariaDB 5.5, 21 includes MariaDB 10.0
• KaOS —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2014.12, 2017.01 includes MariaDB 10.1
• GNU/Linux KDu — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL as a default in 2.0 Final.
• Korora —Defaulted to MariaDB in 19.1, 25 includes MariaDB 10.1
• Linux from Scratch —7.1-BLFS defaults MariaDB 10.1
• Lunar —1.7.0 includes MariaDB 5.5
• Mageia — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL as default version 2, and MariaDB 10.0 from version 5.1
• Manjaro Linux — Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 0.8.11, 16.10.3 includes MariaDB 10.1.
• NixOS —14.0.4.630 included MariaDB 10.0, 16.09 includes 10.1
• Network Security Toolkit —20-5663 defaulted to MariaDB 5.5, 24-7977 includes MariaDB 10.1
• NuTyX —14.11 included MariaDB 10.0, defaulted to MariaDB 10.1 in 8.2.1
• Open Mandriva —Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in 2014.2, includes MariaDB 10.1 in 3.01
• PCLinuxOS —Replaced MySQL with MariaDB 10.1 in 2017.03
• openSUSE — MariaDB 5.5 became the default relational database in openSUSE 12.3, and MariaDB 10.0 the default since 13.2
• Oracle Linux — 7.3 includes MariaDB 5.5.
• Paldo —Defaults to MariaDB 10.1 in Stable
• Parrot Security —Switched from MySQL to MariaDB 10.0 in 3.1
• Parabola GNU/Linux
• Parted Magic —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2015_11_13
• Pisi Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in 1.1
• Plamo —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 5.3.1, 6.1 includes MariaDB 10.1
• PoliArch —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 13.1, 15.1 includes MariaDB 10.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux — MariaDB 5.5 has been the default "MySQL" database since RHEL 7
• ROSA —Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in R4.
• Sabayon —Included MariaDB 10.0 in 14.12, includes MariaDB 10.1 since 15.12
• Scientific Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 7.3
• Slackware — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL as default in 14.1. 14.2 includes MariaDB 10.0
• SliTaz GNU/Linux —Includes MariaDB 10.0 in 5.0-rolling
• Springdale Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 7.2
• SuliX — Defaults to MariaDB 5.5 in 8.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise — MariaDB 10.0 is the default relational database option on 12-SP2.
• Ubuntu —MariaDB 5.5 was included in Trusty Tahr 14.04. 16.04 Xenial includes MariaDB 10.0.
• Void — Incudes MariaDB 10.1 in current
• Wifislax — Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in 4.11.1

BSD Distributions

• Dragonfly BSD — 3.8 includes MariaDB 5.5. 4.6.0 includes MariaDB 10.0.
• FreeBSD — MariaDB is available in the ports tree and the FreeBSD Manual has instructions on Installing Applications: Packages and Ports. MariaDB 10.0 is included in 10.3 and 11.0.
  • MariaDB on FreshPorts
• NetBSD — 6.1 and 7.0 include MariaDB 5.5.
• OpenBSD — MariaDB 10.0 has been available since the 5.7 release.
• TrueOS

macOS

• Homebrew — If you have Homebrew installed, you can install MariaDB Server by executing brew install mariadb. Find out more at Installing MariaDB Server on macOS Using Homebrew.
• MacPorts —This provides mariadb and mariadb-server. A quick guide on how to install it.