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Unable to upgrade mariadb 'You have held broken packages' – Debian

I am trying to upgrade from mariadb 10.1 to the newest version (10.5) on Debian 8.11.
Everything fine until :

apt-get install mariadb-server

And the error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mariadb-server : Depends: mariadb-server-10.5 (>= 1:10.5.5+maria~bionic) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have tried many things, including the following

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update

As well as the solution provided here

Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. 0

    Try this one, this will install MariaDB to the newest version.

    curl -sS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash
apt update
apt upgrade
apt remove mysql-common
apt install mariadb-server
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  2. 0

    This worked for me, I also had problems before where i had to clear out old instances of mysql. Tried updating maria, wouldn’t update or install. Thought it was weird. Think it’s from an old version hanging up.

    sudo apt-get remove --purge mariadb-server* mariadb-client*

    The Star behind each instance clears all versions it seems a little better. It worked for me with mysql. For Maria didn’t work the same. Had to use the below line.

    curl -sS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install mariadb-server
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