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    Step 1: Check that mysql is installed

On Ubuntu 16.04/15.10/15.04:
sudo systemctl status mysql
Step 2: Uninstall MySQL

if you want to install MariaDB on your system first you have to uninstall existing mysql. Follow these steps to uninstall completely existing MySQL from server.
sudo systemctl stop mysql
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql/
Step 3: Install MariaDB

When MySQL in uninstalled completely then run the following command to install MariaDB.
Install MariaDB
Add mariaDB repo
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install mariadb-server-10.4
Step 4 (Final): Checking MariaDB is installed

sudo systemctl status mysql