Percona 5.6 (MariaDB & MySQL) & Debian/Ubuntu

Get up and running easily with Percona 5.6 on Debian.
This example is running Linux Mint 15.

 PERCONA 5.6:
 http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/apt_repo.html

 linuxmint ~ # apt-get install percona-server-server-5.6 percona-server-client-5.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient18.1 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  percona-server-common-5.6
Suggested packages:
  tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient18.1 libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
  percona-server-client-5.6 percona-server-common-5.6 percona-server-server-5.6
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 40.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 140 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y


linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv1a_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv1a_udf.so'"
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv1a_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv1a_udf.so'" -p
Enter password:
linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION fnv_64 RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libfnv_udf.so'" -p
Enter password:
linuxmint ~ # mysql -e "CREATE FUNCTION murmur_hash RETURNS INTEGER SONAME 'libmurmur_udf.so'" -p
Enter password:
linuxmint ~ #
linuxmint ~ # mysql -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 52
Server version: 5.6.13-rc61.0 Percona Server (GPL), Release 61.0

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> SELECT VERSION();
+---------------+
| VERSION()     |
+---------------+
| 5.6.13-rc61.0 |
+---------------+
1 row in set (0.04 sec)



MariaDB 10 & 5.5 both resulted with the following
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/

linuxmint ~ # apt-get install mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

So you need to review
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installing-mariadb-deb-files/

linuxmint ~ # apt-cache show mysql-common | grep Version
Version: 5.5.33a+maria-1~raring
linuxmint ~ # apt-cache show libmysqlclient18 | grep Version
Version: 5.5.33a+maria-1~raring
linuxmint ~ # apt-get install mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-client-5.5  libmysqlclient18=5.5.33a+maria-1~raring  mysql-common=5.5.33a+maria-1~raring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done


MySQL:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
It is possible to download the debian packages from the dev.mysql.com/downloads site.