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When I tried to install mariadb on Ubuntu 14.04, it shows:

dpkg: error processing archive 

/var/cache/apt/archives/libmysqlclient18_10.0.14+maria-1~trusty_amd64.deb (--unpack):  

libmysqlclient18:amd64 10.0.14+maria-1~trusty 

(Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable

with libmysqlclient18 which has multiple installed instances 

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have tried many ways to solve it but no one solved it.

From comments in the mariadb documentation:

To fix the "libmysqlclient18:amd64 5.5.34+maria-1~saucy (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libmysqlclient18 which has multiple installed instances" problem follow further steps:

The problem is that libmysqlclient18:i386 was not fully removed by the automated install. Rather than "messing" with /var/lib/dpkg/status, my solution was:

• fully remove libmariadbclient18 (because it depends on libmysqlclient18) with apt-get --purge remove libmariadbclient18




• fully remove libmysqlclient18:i386 with apt-get --purge remove libmysqlclient18:i386

Then proceed with the automated Software Update installation (or install libmariadbclient18 and libmysqlclient18 5.5.34+maria-1saucy from the terminal)

For those in Ubuntu 14.10 upgrading from MySQL to Maria DB, I would find this as one answer from Google searches. I would get stuck in 14.10 also with a similar

 libmysqlclient18:amd64 10.0.16+maria-1~utopic (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libmysqlclient18 which has multiple installed instances

After following these suggestions to no avail, the following helped me greatly: How to Replace MySQL with MariaDB in Ubuntu Server by JournalXtra .

Editing /var/lib/dpkg/status and removing the two instances of libmysqlclient18 like this:

Package: libmysqlclient18

Status: deinstall ok config-files

Priority: optional

Section: libs

Installed-Size: 3392

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: i386

Multi-Arch: same

Source: mysql-5.5

Version: 5.5.40-0ubuntu1

Config-Version: 5.5.40-0ubuntu1

Depends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.40-0ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

Pre-Depends: multiarch-support

Description: MySQL database client library

 MySQL is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database

 server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query

 language in the world. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and

 ease of use.

 .      

 This package includes the client library.

Homepage: http://dev.mysql.com/

Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers <pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Allowed me to install MariaDB smoothly afterward.

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

Note: I did get here after many attempts at this removing libmariadbclient18 and libmysqlclient18 before this solution worked. I couldn't get past apt-get issues until these two were removed since they were reported as broken packages before I could attempt any other repair.

It works for me.

sudo dpkg --purge libmysqlclient18  

sudo dpkg --purge libmysqlclient18:i386

sudo apt install -f