$ sudo apt install mariadb-server-10.0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mariadb-server-10.0 : Depends: mariadb-client-10.0 (>= 10.0.31-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mariadb-server-core-10.0 (>= 10.0.31-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) but it is not going to be installed Conflicts: mysql-server-core-5.7 but 5.7.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 is to be installed Breaks: mysql-server mysql-server : Depends: mysql-server-5.7 but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdbd-mysql-perl libreadline5 mariadb-common Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: mysql-server-5.7 Suggested packages: tinyca The following NEW packages will be installed: mysql-server-5.7 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/2,463 kB of archives. After this operation, 48.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 318974 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mysql-server-5.7_5.7.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb ... Aborting downgrade from (at least) 10.0 to 5.7. If are sure you want to downgrade to 5.7, remove the file /var/lib/mysql/debian-*.flag and try installing again. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.7_5.7.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.7_5.7.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)