title: Installing MariaDB - Unmet dependencies, mariadb-server-5.5
body: <p>I'm attempting to install MariaDB on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.</p>
  
  <p>I've followed the instructions provided at <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/64772/how-to-install-mariadb">https://askubuntu.com/questions/64772/how-to-install-mariadb</a> and from MariaDB.org that appear when you choose the download.</p>
  
  <p>The last step is <code>sudo apt-get install mariadb-server</code> which returns:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   mariadb-server : Depends: mariadb-server-5.5 but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The dependency issue is an acknowledge issue (<a href="https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3882" rel="noreferrer">https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3882</a>) but I believe the broken package prevents me from working around this.</p>
  
  <p>If I try to install libmariadbclient18 I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libmariadbclient18 : Depends: libmysqlclient18 (= 5.5.30-mariadb1~precise) but 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried to correct the broken package using <code>sudo apt-get install -f</code>, but I still can't install mariadb-server or libmariadbclient18.</p>