Ubuntu 20.04 - MySQL JDBC driver

Is there a way to install MySQL JDBC driver from Ubuntu 20.04 repository?

It looks from other questions (askubuntu, stackoverflow) that it was contained in libmysql-java (which is no longer there), and then moved to libmariadb-java (weird because as far as I know, it's different database - but I found sort of confirmation on debian package description).

So I installed libmariadb-java, but for me it doesn't look like it's there. Here's the result of running dpkg-query -L libmariadb-java:

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libmariadb-java
/usr/share/doc/libmariadb-java/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libmariadb-java/copyright
/usr/share/java
/usr/share/java/mariadb-java-client.jar
/usr/share/maven-repo
/usr/share/maven-repo/org
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client/2.5.3
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client/2.5.3/mariadb-java-client-2.5.3.pom
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client/debian
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client/debian/mariadb-java-client-debian.pom
/usr/share/java/mariadb-java-client-2.5.3.jar
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client/2.5.3/mariadb-java-client-2.5.3.jar
/usr/share/maven-repo/org/mariadb/jdbc/mariadb-java-client/debian/mariadb-java-client-debian.jar

It seems it helped others, so what am I missing?

1 Answer

Download "JDBC Driver for MySQL (Connector/J)" from

You can select the desired Ubuntu version there.

Then you install this .DEB file as follows:

sudo apt install mysql-connector-java_8.0.25-1ubuntu20.04_all.deb