# Debian compatibility

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/debian-compatibility/27821>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/debian-compatibility/27821 "2022-01-10T17:58:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![faras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@faras](https://forum.ghost.org/u/faras)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/debian-compatibility/27821/1 "2022-01-10T17:58:01Z")

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Hi, I’m attempting to install Ghost in a Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 (stretch) – yes, I know it’s not supported. There are errors with MariaDB.

My MariaDB version is 10.1.

I posted this originally on github but got sent here: [Debian compatibility · Issue #13939 · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/13939)

### Steps to Reproduce

Setup run fine. Except the part where a new mysql user needed to be create for Ghost but the documentation assumes Ghost will run as root in mysql.

So a few extra steps were involved:  
`MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [db_name]_prod.* TO '[username]'@localhost identified by '[password]';`

Then after setup I got this message:

```auto
Message: Ghost was able to start, but errored during boot with: Field length of `customer_id` in `members_stripe_customers` is too long!
Help: Read more here: https://github.com/TryGhost/knex-migrator/issues/51

```

I attempted the steps in [TryGhost/knex-migrator#51 (comment)](https://github.com/TryGhost/knex-migrator/issues/51#issuecomment-671519494) but they result in MariaDB not working anymore, like:

```auto
# mysql -v
mysql: unknown variable 'innodb_file_per_table=ON'

```

So I tried updating MariaDB, but that also proved complicated.

### Ghost Version

4.32.1

### Node.js Version

14

### How did you install Ghost?

Using npm on Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 (stretch)

### Database type

Other

### Browser & OS version

Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 (stretch)

### Relevant log / error output

[2022-01-08 19:57:53] WARN Your site is now offline [2022-01-08 19:57:53] WARN Ghost was running for a few seconds /usr/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/lib/process-manager.js:46 throw error; ^ { message: ‘Ghost was able to start, but errored during boot with: Field length of `customer_id` i n `members_stripe_customers` is too long!’ } ghost\_gorg-faras-me.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE: Stopped Ghost systemd service for blog: gorg-faras-me.: ghost\_gorg-faras-me.service: Unit entered failed state. ghost\_gorg-faras-me.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

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**Author:** ![vikaspotluri123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/vikaspotluri123/32/24_2.png) [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/debian-compatibility/27821/2 "2022-01-10T19:08:41Z")

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Does your config file have this? Note the `mysqld` (d for daemon) in the section

```auto
[mysqld]
innodb_file_per_table=ON
innodb_file_format=Barracuda
innodb_large_prefix=ON

```