Installing MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04

📰 Dev.to · Sanskriti Harmukh

Learn to install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 as a MySQL replacement

intermediate Published 8 May 2026

Action Steps

Update the package index using sudo apt update
Install MariaDB using sudo apt install mariadb-server
Configure MariaDB to secure the installation using sudo mysql_secure_installation
Start the MariaDB service using sudo systemctl start mariadb
Enable MariaDB to start automatically on boot using sudo systemctl enable mariadb

Who Needs to Know This

DevOps engineers and developers who work with databases can benefit from this tutorial to set up MariaDB on Ubuntu

Key Insight

💡 MariaDB is a fully open-source drop-in replacement for MySQL

Key Takeaways

Learn to install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 as a MySQL replacement

MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL that remains fully open source under the GPL license,...