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[Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aw thanks Reinis, I see the problem/mistake I made. There are 2
apparently very different websites purporting to be the "official"
website for MariaDB - mariadb.com and mariadb.org. VERY confusing and I
had accidentally gone to the mariadb.com website. Why in the world are
there two sites and if necessary to have both, why don't each site refer
users to the other site and give a description of why a user should
choose one or the other site? IMHO this is a very bad way to provide
website support for MariaDB users! I had simply Googled for MariaDB and
clicked on a link, assuming I was going to be directed to the one and
only "official" MariaDB website, never realizing there were two sites,
nor double checking that I was not directed to the mariadb.org website.
Heck I never would have guessed that there were two different MariaDB
websites! GUI's, including websites, should be guides to solutions, not
just toolboxes, and as for providing a guide to which website is best
suited for a user, both of these website have failed miserably and this
should be corrected ASAP!

The mariadb.com website almost got it right in that one can select a
"Community" version of MariaDB, which I did, but it does not show the
options from the mariadb.org site, instead it only shows options for the
Enterprise versions. For me that just made it worse, since I was being
lead to believe I was getting the open source "community" versions of
MariaDB and therefore I complained that the choices I found there were
unsuitable.

  Marc...


 On 11/8/21 5:14 PM, Reinis Rozitis wrote:
>> I tried/took a look at the packages from mariadb.org and ran into a couple of  snags that I dunno how to work around. First, the mariadb.org repos only support the Enterprise versions of SuSE (SLES), and not the community versions of OpenSuSE. 
> What do you mean by that as there are no repositories for OpenSuse? 
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> https://mariadb.org/download/?t=repo-config&d=openSUSE+15+%28x86_64%29&v=10.5 
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> or can grab the rpms directly (chose one random mirror) https://ftp.nluug.nl/db/mariadb/yum/10.5/opensuse/15/x86_64/rpms/ 
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> p.s. besides 15.3 is practically SLEs
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> rr
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