mariadb installation on Rocky Linux

Mariadb 10.5 on Rocky Linux 2024-09-03

sudo dnf  install wget  ; 
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wget https://r.mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb_repo_setup   ;
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echo "6083ef1974d11f49d42ae668fb9d513f7dc2c6276ffa47caed488c4b47268593 mariadb_repo_setup" 
    | sha256sum -c -   ;
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chmod +x    ./mariadb_repo_setup   ;
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sudo ./mariadb_repo_setup 
   --mariadb-server-version="mariadb-10.5"    ;
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## Install MariaDB Community Server and package dependencies:
sudo dnf  --assumeyes install mariadb-server ;

======================================= OLD WAY: (does not seem to install the correct version!)

cat  <<<END  >  /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo   ;
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.5/centos8-amd64
module_hotfixes=1
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
END
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dnf     --assumeyes install mariadb-server   ;

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systemctl start mariadb.service;
systemctl enable mariadb.service;
##You can now verify the status of the MariaDB service using the following command:
systemctl  status mariadb.service ;