Troubleshooting MariaDB Installs on Red Hat/CentOS - Source

Revision: 51567
User: Michael Widenius
Date: 2017-02-06 08:39

The following article is about different issues people have encountered when installing MariaDB on Red Hat / CentOS.

It is highly recommended to [[yum|install with yum]] where possible.

In Red Hat / CentOS it is also possible to install a [[http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/|RPM]] or a [[installing-mariadb-binary-tarballs|tar ball]]. The RPM is the preferred version, except if you want to install many versions of MariaDB or install MariaDB in a non standard location.

=== Replacing MySQL ===

If you removed an MySQL RPM to install MariaDB, note that the MySQL RPM on uninstall renames /etc/my.cnf to /etc/my.cnf.rpmsave.

After installing MariaDB you should do the following to restore your configuration options:

<<code>>
mv /etc/my.cnf.rpmsave /etc/my.cnf
<</code>>

=== Unsupported configuration options ===

If you are using any of the following options in your /etc/my.cnf or other my.cnf file you should remove them.  This is also true for MySQL 5.1 or newer:

<<code>>
skip-bdb
<</code>>

== See also
* [[yum|Installing with yum (recommended)]]
* [[installing-mariadb-rpm-files|Installing MariaDB RPM Files]]
* [[checking-mariadb-rpm-package-signatures|Checking MariaDB RPM Package Signatures]]

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