Install MariaDB on Debian or Ubuntu

MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2009. Source Wikipedia

Open Terminal / Login SSH Account

sudo apt install ca-certificates apt-transport-https curl
sudo wget -q https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg -O- | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ stretch main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list

Don't forget Update and Upgrage

sudo apt update && upgrade -y

Install MariaDB and phpMyAdmin

sudo apt install php-mbstring php-mysql libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server mariadb-client phpmyadmin

Config database

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Follow the steps to finish (y)

Give access to phpMyAdmin

sudo mysql -u root -p mysql
> update mysql.user set plugin='' where user='root';
> flush privileges;
> exit;

Restart MariaDB (MySQL)

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restrart
or
sudo systemctl restart mysql.service

Open your web browser http://localhost/phpmyadmin or http://your_ip/phpmyadmin

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