installing MariaDB source code on manjaro

Question

i'm a linux newbie and i wanna install mariadb 10.2 which doesn't exist in the the repo. so i wanna install it from the source code mariadb-10.2.12.tar.gz here, so how can i install it

Answer 1

This worked for me in arch:-

- sudo pacman -S mariadb
- sudo  mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
- sudo systemctl start mariadb 
- sudo mysql_secure_installation 
- mysql -u root -p