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Installing MySQL client for MariaDB databases

To use MariaDB as a backend database for Hue, you must install the MySQL client and other required dependencies on all the Hue hosts based on your operating system.

  1. SSH into the Hue host as a root user.
  2. Install the required dependencies as follows:
    yum install -y xmlsec1  xmlsec1-openssl
  3. Add the path where you installed the packages to the PATH environment variable as follows:
    export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
  4. Install the MySQL client as follows:
    pip3.8 install mysqlclient