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[Daniel Bartholomew <dbart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following question has been posted to the Knowledgebase:

https://kb.askmonty.org/en/drop-in-replacement-on-debian/
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Is there a way to make MariaDB install over MySQL on a Debian machine?
I have my puppet master, which is running Debian/sid. It has
puppet-dashboard, which utilizes MySQL 5.5.28. Much to my dismay, I am
unable to install MariaDB over it:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libmariadbclient18 : Depends: libmysqlclient18
   (= 5.5.28-mariadb1~wheezy) but 5.5.28+dfsg-1 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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But if I try to uninstall the parts of MySQL, then apt wishes to
uninstall everything, up to and including puppet-dashboard:


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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  dbconfig-common libaio1 libhttpclient-ruby1.8
  mysql-server-core-5.5 rake ruby-dbi ruby-deprecated unzip zip
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdbd-mysql-perl libdbd-mysql-ruby libmysqlclient18 mysql-client
  mysql-client-5.5 mysql-server mysql-server-5.5 puppet-dashboard
  ruby-dbd-mysql ruby-mysql
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This is unacceptable for a live box... Is there something else I can do
to make the install less painful?
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Thanks.

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