~# apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

La version installée est la 1:10.11.3-1.

root@mysql:~# dpkg -l | grep mariadb
ii  libdbd-mariadb-perl            1.22-1+b1                       amd64        Perl5 database interface to the MariaDB/MySQL databases
ii  libmariadb3:amd64              1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        MariaDB database client library
ii  mariadb-client                 1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        MariaDB database client binaries
ii  mariadb-client-core            1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        MariaDB database core client binaries
ii  mariadb-common                 1:10.11.3-1                     all          MariaDB common configuration files
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2  1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        BZip2 compression support in the server and storage engines
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lz4    1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        LZ4 compression support in the server and storage engines
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzma   1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        LZMA compression support in the server and storage engines
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzo    1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        LZO compression support in the server and storage engines
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-snappy 1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        Snappy compression support in the server and storage engines
ii  mariadb-server                 1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        MariaDB database server binaries
ii  mariadb-server-core            1:10.11.3-1                     amd64        MariaDB database core server files
root@mysql:~# mariadb
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 31
Server version: 10.11.3-MariaDB-1 Debian 12
 
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
 
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
 
MariaDB [(none)]> 

~# mysql -u root -pazerty mysql
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 47
Server version: 5.5.44-0+deb8u1 (Debian)
 
Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
 
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
 
mysql> select host,user from user;
+-----------------+------------------+
| host            | user             |
+-----------------+------------------+
| 127.0.0.1       | root             |
| ::1             | root             |
| localhost       | debian-sys-maint |
| localhost       | root             |
+-----------------+------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
 
mysql> quit
Bye
~# 

Noter l'absence de blanc entre -p et le mot de passe.

“mysql” est le nom de la base de données interne à mySQL.