The following is a partial list of distributions which include MariaDB in their package repositories. For these you can use the distribution's management system to install MariaDB.

The term "default" in the list below refers to the distribution's default relational or MySQL-type database.

Linux Distributions

• 4mLinux — Defaults to MariaDB. MariaDB 10.3 has been available since 26.0
• ALT Linux — MariaDB 5.5 included in 7.0.0, MariaDB is default from 8.1, which includes MariaDB 10.1
• Arch Linux — Features MariaDB 10.3, and replaced MySQL as a default
• Asianux — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL in 7.
• Austrumi— Defaulted to MariaDB 5.3 in 2.4.8, 3.5.8 includes MariaDB 10.1
• BlackArch — Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2014.07.01, 2016.12.29 includes MariaDB 10.1
• BlueOnyx — 5209 defaults to MariaDB 5.5
• BlueStar — 4.8.4 defaults to MariaDB 10.1
• CentOS — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL in CentOS 7
• The Chakra Project — MariaDB replaced MySQL as default in 2013.05. 2016.02 includes MariaDB 10.1
• Debian — Debian 8 "Jessie" includes MariaDB 10.0, Debian 9 "Stretch" includes MariaDB 10.1 and Debian 10 "Buster" includes MariaDB 10.3 as default.
• Elastix —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 4.0.76
• Exherbo —Includes MariaDB 5.5
• Fedora — MariaDB 5.5 became the default relational database in Fedora 19. Fedora 30 includes MariaDB 10.3.
• Funtoo —Includes MariaDB 5.5
• Gentoo Linux
• Guix—0.12.0 includes MariaDB 10.1
• Hanthana— 19.1 defaulted to MariaDB 5.5, 21 includes MariaDB 10.0, 28.1.2 includes MariaDB 10.2
• KaOS —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2014.12, 2019.04 includes MariaDB 10.3
• Kali Linux —Includes MariaDB 10.1 since 2017.3
• GNU/Linux KDu — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL as a default in 2.0 Final.
• Korora —Defaulted to MariaDB in 19.1, 25 includes MariaDB 10.1
• Linux from Scratch —8.3-BLFS defaults MariaDB 10.3
• Lunar —1.7.0 includes MariaDB 5.5
• Mageia — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL as default in version 3, MariaDB 10.3 from version 7.1
• Manjaro Linux — Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 0.8.11, 16.10.3 includes MariaDB 10.1.
• NixOS —14.0.4.630 included MariaDB 10.0, 18.09 includes 10.2
• Network Security Toolkit —20-5663 defaulted to MariaDB 5.5, 24-7977 includes MariaDB 10.1
• NuTyX —14.11 included MariaDB 10.0, defaulted to MariaDB 10.1 in 8.2.1
• OpenELEC
• Open Mandriva —Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in 2014.2, includes MariaDB 10.1 in 3.01
• PCLinuxOS —Replaced MySQL with MariaDB 10.1 in 2017.03
• openSUSE — MariaDB 5.5 became the default relational database in openSUSE 12.3, and MariaDB 10.2 the default since 15
• Oracle Linux — 7.3 includes MariaDB 5.5. 8.0 includes MariaDB 10.3
• Paldo —Defaults to MariaDB 10.1 in Stable
• Parrot Security —Based on Debian's testing branch (stretch), Parrot Security switched from MySQL to MariaDB 10.0 in 3.1, and MariaDB 10.1 in 3.7
• Parabola GNU/Linux —Includes MariaDB 10.1 since 3.7
• Parrot Security OS
• Parted Magic —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 2015_11_13
• Pisi Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in 1.1
• Plamo —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 5.3.1, 6.1 includes MariaDB 10.1
• PoliArch —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 13.1, 15.1 includes MariaDB 10.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux — MariaDB 5.5 was included as the default "MySQL" database since RHEL 7, RHEL 8 includes MariaDB 10.3
• ROSA —Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in R4 and MariaDB 10.1 in R9.
• Sabayon —Included MariaDB 10.0 in 14.12, includes MariaDB 10.2 since 18.05
• Scientific Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 7.3
• Slackware — MariaDB 5.5 replaced MySQL as default in 14.1. 14.2 includes MariaDB 10.0
• SliTaz GNU/Linux —Includes MariaDB 10.0 in 5.0-rolling
• SME Server— started to use MariaDB 5.5 from 10.0
• Springdale Linux —Defaulted to MariaDB 5.5 in 7.2
• SuliX — Defaults to MariaDB 5.5 in 8.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise — MariaDB 10.0 is the default relational database option on 12-SP2.
• Ubuntu —MariaDB 5.5 was included in Trusty Tahr 14.04. 18.04 Bionic includes MariaDB 10.1.
• Void — Incudes MariaDB 10.1 in current
• Wifislax — Defaulted to MariaDB 10.0 in 4.11.1

BSD Distributions

• Dragonfly BSD — 3.8 included MariaDB 5.5. 4.8.1 includes MariaDB 10.1.
• FreeBSD — MariaDB is available in the ports tree and the FreeBSD Manual has instructions on Installing Applications: Packages and Ports. MariaDB 10.3 is included in 12.0
  • MariaDB on FreshPorts
• NetBSD — 6.1 and 7.0 include MariaDB 5.5.
• OpenBSD — MariaDB 10.0 has been available since the 5.7 release.
• TrueOS

macOS

• Homebrew — If you have Homebrew installed, you can install MariaDB Server by executing brew install mariadb. Find out more at Installing MariaDB Server on macOS Using Homebrew.
• MacPorts —This provides mariadb and mariadb-server. A quick guide on how to install it.