installation on Ubuntu 11.10
Temporary fix until Oracle fix it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl
Installation on Ubuntu 10.10
The official MySQL site includes DEB packages for the latest versions of both WorkBench and Ubuntu, in 32 and 64 bits:
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/#downloads
"Ubuntu Linux" in an option in the platform dropdown list.
Installation on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx
Download the ubuntu package from the MySQL web site
sudo apt-get install libctemplate0 libzip1 python-pysqlite2 mysql-client python-crypto python-paramiko sudo dpkg -i mysql-workbench-gpl-5.2.27-1ubu1004-i386.deb
You can check the full dependencies list by using apt-rdepends (sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends to install it)
Then, you have MySQL Workbench listed under "Applications > Programming".
Previous Ubuntu version
As of this writing (November 2009), MySQL Workbench can be easily installed on Ubuntu/Gnome. Just download the binary .deb file from the MySQL web site for workbench (currently named mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.18-1ubu904-i386.deb), save it to your home directory. Then run:
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-0 libzip1 libmysqlclient15off python-pexpect sudo dpkg -i mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.18-1ubu904-i386.deb (adapt the name accordingly)
Then, you have MySQL Workbench listed under "Applications > Programming".
If you get this error when trying to connect to your local MySQL database:
Couldn't load library libmysqlclient_r.so: libmysqlclient_ro.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
Create a symbolic link like so:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so
These are the previous notes left for history purpose:
My notes on installing MySqlWorkBench.
As far as I can tell, no one has started working on packaging it.
sudo apt-get install build-essential liblualib50-dev libglade2-dev libxml++2.6-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libpcre3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev uuid-dev libglut3-dev wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-gui-tools-5.0r5.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/ tar -xzvf mysql-gui-tools-5.0r5.tar.gz cd mysql-gui-tools-5.0r5/mysql-gui-common ./configure --enable-grt --enable-canvas make make install cd ../mysql-workbench ./configure make make install mysql-workbench
It runs. it segfaulted on me in the fist 5 min of playing. so play on backup data. here is a line to dump all databases (except the system one) from one server:
mysql -u root -pfoo -Bqse 'SHOW dATABASES' | grep -Ev '^mysql$' | while read db ; do mysqldump -uroot -pfoo --databases $db ; done >all_databases.sql sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 mysql -u root < all_databases.sql
from the mail list:
The "extra requirements" for mysql-gui-common (when you want support for the Generic Canvas and the GRT) include uuid-dev package and several others, as described here:
I then came across this post which depressed me at first:
However, I was able to get completed builds on everything using the SVN trunk revisions for my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) (on both my i386 and also on my AMD64/x86_64 host) by doing as follows:
sudo apt-get install subversion autoconf automake1.9 libtool svn co http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-gui-common/trunk mysql-gui-common cd mysql-gui-common sh ./autogen.sh --enable-grt --enable-canvas make sudo make install cd .. svn co http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-administrator/trunk mysql-administrator cd mysql-administrator sh ./autogen.sh make sudo make install cd .. sudo apt-get install libgtkhtml3.8-dev # Determine which revision of libgtkhtml ... $ ls /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgtk* # Then include that revision in the --with-gtkthml clause below. $ svn co http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-query-browser/trunk mysql-query-browser $ cd mysql-query-browser $ sh ./autogen.sh --with-gtkhtml=libgtkhtml-3.8 $ make $ sudo make install $ cd .. svn co http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-workbench/trunk mysql-workbench cd mysql-workbench sh ./autogen.sh make sudo make install cd .. svn co http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-migration-tool/trunk/ mysql-migration-tool cd mysql-migration-tool # um.. what next doc? there is no ./autogen.sh or INSTALL.txt...
I'll clean this up as I go.
Some more notes (new user)
I'm trying this on using the directions up top.
While trying to compile the tools I get the following:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I/usr/include/mysql -DBIG_JOINS=1 -fPIC -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DDLOAD_JVM -I/usr/include/lua50 -I../../../library/base-library/include -I../../../library/utilities/include -I../../../library/utilities/shared_include -I../../../library/generic-runtime/include -I../../../library/generic-canvas/include -I../../../library/generic-canvas/ftgl/include -DENABLE_LUA_MODULES -I../include -MT GraphRenderer.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/GraphRenderer.Tpo -c GraphRenderer.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/GraphRenderer.o
GraphRenderer.cpp: In member function 'void GraphRenderer::recalc_outer_rect()': GraphRenderer.cpp:432: error: 'INT_MAX' was not declared in this scope GraphRenderer.cpp:434: error: 'INT_MIN' was not declared in this scope
It appears these used to be warnings, but that changed in g++-4.3.
Compiling with g++4.2 I get other errors. */