(Source) A few steps: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common dirmngr wget -qO – https://mariadb.org/mariadb_release_signing_key.asc | sudo apt-key add – nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list In mariadb.list we add the two below lines: deb [arch=amd64,i386,ppc64el] http://mirror.23media.de/mariadb/repo/10.4/debian stretch main deb-src http://mirror.23media.de/mariadb/repo/10.4/debian stretch main Then: apt-get update apt-get install mariadb-server