I can, however, install the mariadb-server package just fine and I can on command line verify my db connection - but that's overkill, installing a full server to get client functionality.
I went ahead and checked for MySQL installed packages, forgetting that I was actually using Mariadb. So I installed MySQL; discovered I should not have done that; removed MySQL; and followed these instructions to install Mariadb 10.4. sudo apt install mariadb-server is returning: Some packages could not be installed.
How can I install mysql and not mariadb on Bookworm and any other variants that try to force us away from mysql? I get that there is SQL-level compatibility between Maria and MySql.
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While starting MariaDB I got [Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 1024 (request: 4607) $ sudo systemctl status mysqld mysqld.service - MariaDB database server Loa...
In MariaDB 10.1.13 and later versions, the init script also sources /etc/default/mariadb, so it can also be used to set MYSQLD_STARTUP_TIMEOUT to persistently change the startup timeout.
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Also mariadb doesn't currently have an AppArmor profile in Debian at the moment but it could grow one, so you'd have to watch out for that as it's very likely to restrict the daemon to only being able to access /var/lib/mysql.
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I've had an interesting discussion recently, about whether it is okay to call MariaDB a "mysql server" when in reality, Maria is not 100% compatible with MySQL. I understand it was origin...