root@[hostname]:/# apt install mariadb-server

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

  mariadb-server-10.6

Suggested packages:

  mailx mariadb-test

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  mariadb-server mariadb-server-10.6

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

5 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0 B/4,093 kB of archives.

After this operation, 67.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Preconfiguring packages ...

Setting up mariadb-common (1:10.6.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...

update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf doesn't exist

dpkg: error processing package mariadb-common (--configure):

 installed mariadb-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

 mariadb-common

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

root@[hostname]:/# apt list --installed | grep mysql

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

root@[hostname]:/# apt list --installed | grep maria

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.