Obtaining MariaDB

The main downloads page for MariaDB is http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/. This page tells you the latest major release version and provides a link to the next step of the download.

At the time of this writing, this page shows that the recommended current release is MariaDB 5.0, with alpha releases of MariaDB 5.1 also available. If you click through to download MariaDB 5.0, you are taken to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html.

This page lists the MariaDB downloads by platform, with a link to download each. The latest version number and the file size are displayed alongside each package.

The following sections explain which packages you require for each type of installation.