MariaDB Essentials

Upgrading MariaDB

If a package manager has been used to install MariaDB, the patch upgrades, like 10.0.12 to 10.0.13, are automatic. Each package manager supports a command to upgrade the packages, and will also take care to upgrade the dependencies if needed. If no package manager is used (for example, when we are working on Windows or if we have installed the generic Linux/UNIX binaries), we will need to manually uninstall and re-install MariaDB. This is also true for minor or major version upgrades such as 10.0 to 10.1. The following commands can be used with the package managers that have been used in this chapter:

• With apt-get (Debian):

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  

• With Yum (Red Hat):

  sudo yum update MariaDB-server MariaDB-client ...