On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 11:06:32 PM you wrote: > Downgrading from MariaDB 10.0 or MySQL 5.6 back to old MySQL 5.5 isn't > supported and in many cases impossible. > > If you want to do that, then purge the old installation so that there > are no configs or databases of the new format left behind, and then > install MySQL 5.5. from scratch.
I was not aware that MariaDB had superceeded mysql. Will try reinstalling it as it was removed to install mysql. -- If it ain't broke tweek it

