Installing MariaDB 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04

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Add MariaDB to your system:
(from: https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/)

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xcbcb082a1bb943db
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/ubuntu precise main'
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Once the key is imported and the repository added you can install MariaDB with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server
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See Installing MariaDB .deb Files for more information.

You can also create a custom MariaDB sources.list file. To do so, copy and paste the following into a file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/(we suggest naming the file MariaDB.list or something similar), or add it to the bottom of your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2013-01-31 00:23 UTC
# http://mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/ubuntu precise main