[Koha] upgrading from MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6 uninstalled Koha on Debian 11 Linux

[Coehoorn, Joel]

To clarify: was all your data and configuration preserved in this process?
After re-installing the koha-common packages things were fine again?

*Joel Coehoorn*
Director of Information Technology
*York University*
Office: 402-363-5603 | jcoehoorn at york.edu | york.edu



On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM Dwight Walker <dwight at wwwalker.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I was upgrading MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6 on Debian 11 Linux, I discovered
> Koha 22.05.22.000 was uninstalled in form of koha-common.
>
> Koha was not there when I opened my OPAC URL.
>
> The process of upgrading MariaDB included uninstalling 10.5 which was when
> Koha as koha-common was uninstalled.
>
> After I installed MariaDB 10.6 I had a database but no Koha software.
>
> Koha relies on MariaDB to hold the catalogue.
>
> To get Koha software back, I reinstalled Koha software as root in command
> line interface (CLI) on Debian 11 Linux:
>
> apt install koha-common
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dwight Walker
> WWWalker Web Development Pty Ltd
> https://wwwalker.com.au (https://wwwalker.com.au)
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