Building MariaDB on Debian - MariaDB Knowledge Base
mariadb.com › kb › enJun 22, 2018 · Before you begin, install the software-properties-common and devscripts packages: $ sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common \ devscripts Installing Build Dependencies. MariaDB requires a number of packages to compile from source. Fortunately, you can use the MariaDB repositories to retrieve the necessary code for the version you want.