Installing Tango on Debian

Install mariadb-server before anything else:

sudo aptitude install mariadb-server

Remove the custom plugin validation to allow tango-db to be configured at install time:

sudo mysql -u root
MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql
MariaDB [mysql]> update user set plugin='' where User='root';
MariaDB [mysql]> flush privileges;
MariaDB [mysql]> \q

Keep mysql.root w/out password while installing Tango. Then install all tango packages:

sudo aptitude install tango-db

DONT USE localhost AS YOUR TANGO HOST, USE YOUR TRUE HOSTNAME

If you did it, solve it with: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tango-common

Now fix again the root password for MariaDB:

$ mysql -u root
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('...');
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Proceed with the installation

sudo systemctl start tango-db

sudo aptitude install libtango-java libtango-tools libtango-doc python-tango tango-common  tango-db tango-starter tango-test

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sudo aptitude install python-itango python-taurus python-fandango ...