[SOLVED] Installing MySQL on debian using commandline

Issue

I have been trying to install mysql-server on my debian machine for a while now, but so far I have run into many problems. I'm running Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch).

I have tried:

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install mysql-server

However, this installs mariadb-server (version 10.1, I need at least 10.2 for it to work) instead. I have tried updating my sources and adding apt-repo's but nothing allowed me to install the normal MySql. I have also tried install MariaDB >= 10.2 directly but no luck either.

I would like either normal MySql-5.6 or MariaDB-10.3 on my machine. What do I do?

Solution

From documentation here

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common dirmngr

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xF1656F24C74CD1D8

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,i386,ppc64el] https://mirrors.shu.edu.cn/mariadb/repo/10.3/debian stretch main'

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

If You don't see Your distribution or cannot install by compatibility reasons only solution is to compile from sources

Unfortunately I could not find .DEB package to ease Your life.

Answered By - num8er