[mythtv-users] Unable to install MythTV on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04

[George Poulson]

As a previous poster has said, mysql and mariadb are equivalents.
An application that needs an sql database *should* be able to use either
mysql or mariadb.


On 13 May 2018 at 09:32, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/05/2018, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:58:43 +0800, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>One extra thing that gets me, about this, is that, apparently, mariadb
> >>will not install and run on a system, that has mysql installed.
> >>
> >>If I can have postgresql and mysql concurrently installed, why can
> >>mariadb not also be concurrently installed with mysql?
> >>
> >>It sounds like a proprietary software restriction imposed by mariadb.
> >
> > MySQL and MariaDB are mutually exclusive.  They perform the same job -
> > MariaDB installs itself as though it was MySQL, including using the
> > same names for the mysql command line programs.  MythTV will install
> > if the right version of either MySQL or MariaDB is installed.  I
> > recommend that you install MariaDB, which will uninstall MySQL, then
> > install MythTV from the PPA.
>
> So, what happens if I have any application installed, that relies on mysql?
>
> I do not know that I have any application installed, that relies on
> mysql, but, it had not occured to me, that mythtv would rely on
> mariadb, or, any other database, so, I assume that it is possible that
> I have some application(s) installed, that rely on mysql.
>
> --
>
> Bret Busby
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> West Australia
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