<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 May 2018 at 09:40, Bret Busby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bret.busby@gmail.com" target="_blank">bret.busby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 13/05/2018, George Poulson <<a href="mailto:george.poulson@gmail.com">george.poulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> As a previous poster has said, mysql and mariadb are equivalents.<br>
> An application that needs an sql database *should* be able to use either<br>
> mysql or mariadb.<br>
><br>
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</span>But not mythtv.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote><br><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I'm sorry but you are wrong.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br>MythTV can use any database engine that exposes a 'standard' sql interface, be it MySQL, MariaDB or whatever.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The *buntu distribution that you have chosen is packaged such that it has (possibly unnecessarily) installed MySQL in its base distribution.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The MythTV packages that you are considering installing specify MariaDB for the database, and so the package manager is asking to remove MySQL and replace it with MariaDB. There will likely be no visible effect or impact to doing this. MythTV can happily use either of these 2 databases.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">As I have suggested before, just follow the package manager suggestions to uninstall MySQL and install MythTV with its associated MariaDB database.<br><br><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br><br></div><br><br><br></div></div></div>