Migrating To MariaDB From MySQL in Ubuntu 15.04 With Root Bug Fix

April 30, 2015
Linux, PC, Ubuntu
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MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. Being a fork of a leading open source software system, it is notable for being led by the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle. Contributors are required to share their copyright with the MariaDB Foundation [Wikipedia]

Migrating To MariaDB
Nothing new, and not that hard. It’s just as same as MySQL, so first we backup our existing databases and keep for later restoration

$ mysqldump -u root -p&quot;your_password&quot; --all-databases &gt; ~/backup.sql

Stop and remove MySQL packages

$ sudo systemctl stop mysql
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
$ sudo rm -dr /etc/mysql

Install MariaDB

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

Now here is where the changes comes in Ubuntu 15.04; you won’t be prompted to enter root password, even if you run

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

will give you an authentication error

ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

so after installation is done come to this step, login to mysql without password

$ mysql -u root

Next is are this commands

use mysql;

Execute this query

UPDATE <code>user</code> SET <code>plugin</code> = '' WHERE <code>User</code> = 'root';

Followed by

flush privileges;

Then exit

exit

You can now successfully run

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

and set your password and other preferences.

You successfully have MariaDB running on your Ubuntu 15! 🙂

Restoring Backup
We ain’t done yet 😉 you have a backup waiting for you. This is gonna be easy, just login to MySQL as root

$ cd ~/
$ mysql -u root -p

After a succesful login, execute this

source backup.sql

After processing, we are good to go 🙂

James John

Software Engineer

Migrating To MariaDB From MySQL in Ubuntu 15.04 With Root Bug Fix

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