On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:01 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I went to the MariaDB homepage and followed links to > [https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/installing-mariadb-deb-files/].
You should instead be installing it from the usual debian-hosted repositories, unless you have a known need for a specific release. The usual repos normally have multiple releases of MariaDB/MySQL on them. > It tries to be too many things for too many people MariaDB/MySQL are today DBMS's of commercial depth and quality. That wasn't always the case. One whole lot of Earth's commerce is riding on them today. They are inherently complex and learning them takes time and some background perhaps. Maybe Apache CouchDB would be better for your purposes unless you expect scads of data.
