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ptrj

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Registered: 2026-03-24

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KOrganizer vs Akonadi vs MariaDB solution

Hi,

is it possible to install the Akonadi package without a MariaDB server?
I'd like to install KOrganizer, but this package depends on akonadi-calendar, which in turn depends on akonadi. And the Akonadi package depends on MariaDB, which seems like overkill to me for "light" use.
Maybe a maintainers could figure out a way to handle this, similar to how Debian does it, where I can choose from different backends?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

Thanks

Best regards
Peter

GerBra

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Re: KOrganizer vs Akonadi vs MariaDB solution

See the note section in:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Akonadi

Also useful the sections about the other sql backends.

And there is:

akonadi-db-migrator --help

for switching backends(untested)

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ptrj

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Re: KOrganizer vs Akonadi vs MariaDB solution

Thanks @GerBra, so I have no choice but to have 200MB of MariaDB installed unnecessarily :-/

I am very disappointed, I am just looking at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=294078 and even after two years no change. What sane person wants to have mariadb and backend on their laptop as part of a production tool ?

GerBra

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Re: KOrganizer vs Akonadi vs MariaDB solution

so I have no choice but to have 200MB of MariaDB installed unnecessarily

The mentioned note section IMHO show you exactly a way to prevent this...

And then:
> If Akonadi cannot find /usr/bin/mysqld upon first start, it will fall back to using SQLite.

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ptrj

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Registered: 2026-03-24

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Re: KOrganizer vs Akonadi vs MariaDB solution

Ah, My mistake, I didn't read carefully, I see now.
# pacman -S akonadi --assume-installed mariadb
Thanks

V1del

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Re: KOrganizer vs Akonadi vs MariaDB solution

Sqlite will change to be the default in the next release in April: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … ote_424468 -- https://invent.kde.org/pim/akonadi/-/co … 69e2fb7287

Last edited by V1del (2026-03-25 19:25:49)