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On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current.
>About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find 
>tutorial which was a close enough match to my system.
>
>I found (and attempted to follow) instructions at:
>   https://www.tecmint.com/install-mariadb-in-debian/
>   https://www.linode.com/docs/databases/mariadb/mariadb-setup-debian/
>
>I successfully did:
>   apt-get install software-properties-common

This is not strictly necessary. software-properties-common provides the 
program "apt-add-repository" which, in turn, is only required if you're 
installing packages from a different repository (particularly Ubuntu 
PPAs). However, 'mariadb-server' is in all current versions of Debian 
(jessie to sid), so you're best to stick with the Debian version.

>   apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
>
>*BUT* both references auto-magically go to a GUI setup screen.

This is part of the magic of dpkg called "debconf". "debconf" is a 
system whereby packages can ask a user questions at installation (and 
removal) time and configure themselves accordingly. debconf comes with a 
series of frontends depending on the user's preferred method of 
interaction. What you see in those tutorials (the grey boxes with the 
blue background) is the frontend called "dialog". There are more basic 
fronends (Noninteractive - answers must be provided in a pre-existing 
text file, Readline - questions are asked by a simple plain-text prompt 
and Editor - use your favourite text editor to provide answers) as well 
as more glitzy ones (Gnome and KDE).

Debconf uses a fallback method, too. If you select, say, Gnome as your 
frontend, but are updating outside of an X environment, then debconf can 
fallback to 'dialog' and, if you're installing on a dumb terminal (say, 
your computer is so badly off that you're installing over a serial line) 
it can fallback to readline.

Now, if you're not getting these prompts, then the best place to start 
is by choosing (again) the configuration of debconf. Run:

  # dpkg-reconfigure debconf

and, hopefully, you should first be asked what your preferred frontend 
is. Next, you will be asked to set the LOWEST priority of question you 
want to see. Critical prompts are for questions that might break your 
system (e.g. I would imagine that systemd's take over of init was 
couched as a critical question). High importance are for questions that 
the package needs to know the answer to (but if you don't provide that 
answer, the service probably won't run) and Low importance questions are 
the sort that 99% of people will just skip over.

Finally, once you've reconfigured debconf, try running:

 # dpkg-reconfigure mariadb-server

and you should get prompted for the default password.

>I'm using Debian 9 with MATE.
>I don't find anything related on the Applications nor System menus.
>Help please.
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  Re: Problems installing MariaDB <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-06-29 15:20 +0200
  Re: Problems installing MariaDB Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-06-29 15:20 +0200
    Re: Problems installing MariaDB Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-29 15:40 +0200
      Re: Problems installing MariaDB deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-29 22:10 +0200
        Re: Problems installing MariaDB Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-30 16:10 +0200
          Re: Problems installing MariaDB deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-30 17:00 +0200
          Re: Problems installing MariaDB Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-06-30 22:10 +0200
  Re: Problems installing MariaDB Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-06-29 15:30 +0200
    Re: Problems installing MariaDB Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-29 15:50 +0200
    Re: Problems installing MariaDB Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-06-29 16:30 +0200
  Re: Problems installing MariaDB Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-06-29 20:30 +0200
    Re: Problems installing MariaDB Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-30 14:00 +0200
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