Careful! At least for mariadb 5.5 setup on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, you need to pin the mariadb versions of packages because Ubuntu breaks stuff with their updates.

Careful! At least for mariadb 5.5 setup on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, you need to pin the mariadb versions of packages because Ubuntu breaks stuff with their updates. # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: origin repo.percona.com Pin-Priority: 1003 Package: * Pin: origin ftp.osuosl.org Pin-Priority: 1002 # tail /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/ubuntu precise main deb-src ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/ubuntu precise main