Just so I understand, you did have to hand change QMYSQL to QSQLITE
Mine was already set…humm???
[Debug]
Tracer=null
[%General]
Driver=QSQLITE
[QMYSQL]
DataDir=/home/me/.local/share/akonadi/db_data
Host=
Name=akonadi
Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket"
ServerPath=/usr/bin/mysqld
StartServer=true
[QSQLITE]
Name=/home/me/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi.db