Mariadb isnt installable on ubuntu vivid

[Sandra Karuving]

in ubuntu vivid you cant install mariadb. not server, nor client

agi mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mariadb-server : Depends: mariadb-server-10.0 (>= 10.0.16-2~exp1~ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

agi mariadb-server-10.0 :(
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mariadb-server-10.0 : Depends: mariadb-client-10.0 (>= 10.0.16-2~exp1~ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: mariadb-server-core-10.0 (>= 10.0.16-2~exp1~ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                       Conflicts: mysql-server-core-5.6 but 5.6.23-1~exp1~ubuntu5 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: mariadb-server (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-10.10-generic 3.19.2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Mar 31 12:11:28 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-18 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150318)
SourcePackage: mariadb-10.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

There was bug 1429725 for which I've just uploaded a fix in 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 which should be available in a few hours. That bug prevented installation, but not in the way that you describe.

Having fixed that bug, I was unable to reproduce your issue.

Please can you try 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 once it becomes available? If that works for you, please mark this bug Invalid. If it does not work for you, then please provide steps to reproduce your problem on a fresh Vivid system and then change the status of this bug to New. Thanks!

[Jake Paine (jakerpaine)]

I have just tried to reinstall myself and I'm still unable to. Output below, not quite the same but thought it was better posted here that in another thread.

On apt-get remove, it just hangs on:

Removing mariadb-server (10.0.17-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing mariadb-client (10.0.17-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mariadb-server-10.0 (10.0.17-0ubuntu1) ...

Install output:

jake@jake-ThinkPad-T410:~$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-client mariadb-server
[sudo] password for jake:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libterm-readkey-perl
  mariadb-client-10.0 mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-common
  mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server-core-10.0
Suggested packages:
  libmldbm-perl libnet-daemon-perl libsql-statement-perl mailx mariadb-test
  tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libterm-readkey-perl mariadb-client
  mariadb-client-10.0 mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-common mariadb-server
  mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server-core-10.0
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6 MB/12.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 128 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-common all 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [17.8 kB]
Get:2 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-client-core-10.0 amd64 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [808 kB]
Get:3 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-client-10.0 amd64 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [1,160 kB]
Get:4 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-server-core-10.0 amd64 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [4,275 kB]
Get:5 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-server-10.0 amd64 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [5,268 kB]
Get:6 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-client all 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [13.4 kB]
Get:7 http://tf.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe mariadb-server all 10.0.17-0ubuntu1 [13.5 kB]
Fetched 11.6 MB in 2s (4,274 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libaio1:amd64.
(Reading database ... 237271 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libaio1_0.3.110-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libaio1:amd64 (0.3.110-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-common.
Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-common_10.0.17-0ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking mariadb-common (10.0.17-0ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libdbi-perl.
Preparing to unpack .../libdbi-perl_1.631-3build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libdbi-perl (1.631-3build1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libterm-readkey-perl.
Preparing to unpack .../libterm-readkey-perl_2.32-1build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libterm-readkey-perl (2.32-1build1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-client-core-10.0.
Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-client-core-10.0_10.0.17-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mariadb-client-core-10.0 (10.0.17-0ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-client-10.0.
Preparing to unp...

[Jake Paine (jakerpaine)]

After a bit of searching I did find this, however according to the MariaDB bug tracker this should be fixed. in 10.0.17 - not sure if this helps at all!

https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.0/commit/26fd165625b2e840fbda05ed11e5b7c12f308fca?diff=unified

[Markus (maier-m)]

It seems to me that if you upgrade from trusty now, everything works fine. But if you tried an earlier update on version 10.0.16-2~exp1~ubuntu1 your kind of stuck and 10.0.17 doesn't fix the issue.

Can anyone confirm this?

[Jake Paine (jakerpaine)]

I had tried an earlier version and can confirm that 10.0.17 doesnt fix the issue for me.

I will try again tonight to make sure.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 1429725 for now, since it looks like it to me. From a report in that bug, there is a data migration for users who were affected by it. It seems like this is the issue you're having now?