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I had similar issues on my Ubuntu 18.04 system. I had to remove all Mariadb related packages with Synaptic Manager and then I followed the instructions at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/installing-mariadb-deb-files/
Specifically, I used: 1. Adding the MariaDB APT repository 2. Importing the MariaDB GPG Public Key 3. Installing MariaDB with APT
Interesting on my system with Ubuntu 18.10, the same method did not work. I used the method described at https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#mirror=telkom&distro=Ubuntu&distro_release=bionic--ubuntu_bionic&version=10.3
Here you can choose the correct version. I used 10.3 stable version.
The other way round did not work for either Ubuntu version. Best wishes Gert Kruger