On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > I also use KDE. I went ahead with the switch. I stopped akonadi first, > though: > > # akonadictl stop > <install mariadb> > # akonadictl start > > And all seemed to go well. I haven't done anything special for KDE when > upgrading mysql before, so I don't think anything is required now. I > haven't > noticed any issues. > Thank you - I had already done the mariadb install with akonadi running - however I have just stopped and restarted it, and then checked with: $ akonadictl status there seemed not to be any problem so I guess restarting KDE or rebooting would also be fine. -- mike c