On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM MysticRyuujin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems that Ubuntu repo maintainers have dropped support for > `libmysql-java` in favor of `libmariadb-java` which results in a very > annoying situation where we have to manually download and install the > connector and can no longer rely on apt to keep the connector updated > because Guacamole seems to rely on the 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver' class > explicitly where as `libmariadb-java` uses `org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver` > > Which means that in Ubuntu < 19 we could do this: > apt install libmysql-java > ln -s /usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar /etc/guacamole/lib/ > > But we can no longer do that as libmysql-java isn't a valid library in > Ubuntu 19. The recommendation seems to be to use libmariadb-java but > obviously that's not working w/o changes to Guacamole? > > Is there a way around this other than downloading the jar from the MySQL > website? > > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-mariadb-connector-j/ > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-852 Support has been merged for the 1.2.0 version (release date unknown, in the future), and I just need to do the documentation for it. -Nick
