

You can set this up by following our initial server setup guide. To complete this tutorial, you will need one Debian 10 server set up with a non- root user with sudo privileges and a firewall. This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB version 10.3 on a Debian 10 server, and verify that it is running and has a safe initial configuration. Run the included mysql_secure_installation security script to restrict access to the server.The package also pulls in related tools to interact with MariaDB Install the mariadb-server package using apt.The short version of this installation guide consists of the following three steps:

If you attempt to install MySQL server-related packages, you’ll receive the compatible MariaDB replacement versions instead. It’s intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL and Debian now only ships with MariaDB packages. MariaDB is an open-source database management system (DBMS), commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack.
