Comment 7 for bug 1576930

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote : Re: [Bug 1576930] Re: Excessive consumption RAM of mysqld daemon in Kubuntu 16.04

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 12:52:44PM -0000, Philip Muškovac wrote:
> Regarding switching to MariaDB, that is supported, but you need to
> replace mysql with mariadb in one go:
>
> # apt-get install mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-server-core-10.0

Note that migrating your data back to MySQL is generally not possible, so back
up your data first. MySQL/MariaDB packaging cannot currently do it anyway. I'm
not sure about akonadi.