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[Miguel Lavalle <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am installing MariaDB in Fedora 34 server with the following sequence of
commands:

sudo dnf upgrade -y
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server mariadb-devel
sudo dnf -y install git vim

With this sequence of commands, I get the following installed:

$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.5.13-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine
wrapper

and I can successfully perform the initial setup of the root password:

sudo mysqladmin -u root password password

and continue with the rest of my installation.

However, if I change the sequence of commands to:

sudo dnf upgrade -y
sudo dnf -y install git vim
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server mariadb-devel

What I get installed instead is:

$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 8.0.27 for Linux on x86_64 (Source distribution)

and the 'sudo mysqladmin -u root password password' command fails with:

mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'You have an error in your
SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server
version for the right syntax to use near '() IDENTIFIED BY
'secretdatabase'' at line 1'

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks!