Cannot update to PHP 8.3.21 with Custombuild

[Shoplifter]

Running Debian 11.11 I get the following error:

dpkg: error processing package mariadb-common (--configure):
installed mariadb-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libmariadb3:amd64:
libmariadb3:amd64 depends on mariadb-common; however:
Package mariadb-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libmariadb3:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mariadb-common
libmariadb3:amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Installing packages 'g++ make autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libsystemd-dev libkrb5-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpng-dev libfreetype6-dev libwebp-dev libjpeg-dev libxslt-dev libsodium-dev libicu-dev libsqlite3-dev libonig-dev libffi-dev libltdl-dev libzip-dev' using apt-get attempt 3/3 failed

Anyone? I can't see the forest for the trees.

 

[Shoplifter]

For the sake of the record, it seems Debian was able to install some Mariadb packages on its own that were causing problems with Custombuild

apt purge mariadb-server
apt purge mariadb-common

Fixed it.

 

[Richard G]

I encountered a similar issue too when using Debian once and installing mtop or something like that. Then mariadb-common was installed as dependencie and problems started to happen.

In RHEL releases this is not possible as DA sets the package manager to not allow installation of any mariadb* packages (and some others). For some reason such option was never used in Debian and deratives, with as a result sometimes these odd issues.