Installing MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 11.10

Thanks to Olivier Berten for providing this package via his PPA Repo !
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl
 
EDIT: this has been confirmed to work on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) as well).

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Leo Gaggl

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This Post Has 11 Comments

  1. cesar December 8, 2011

    Thanks for sharing, but I keep getting this message:

    /usr/bin/mysql-workbench-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgdkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Please let me know if you know how to fix this. thanks in advance!

  3. bax February 3, 2012

    Thx a lotta man, it works likee a charm

  4. Rohit Raina February 17, 2012

    Thanks for sharing. It was really time saving. Thanks!!

  5. Jon March 17, 2012

    Thanks Leo for posting this. And, thanks Olivier Berten for putting this together.
    Very nice :-)

  6. Tom Pettingill April 3, 2012

    Thanks. My attempt to install using the debian package left all kinds of unresolved dependencies. Using your commands worked flawlessly.

  7. Francesco May 8, 2012

    Sorry but the Oliver repository does not work any more:

    francesco@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oliver-berten/misc
    p11-kit: /etc/pkcs11/modules/typesafe-repo-public.asc: invalid config line: —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
    Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~oliver-berten/+archive/misc) to get PPA information, please check your internet connection.
    francesco@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oliver-berten/misc
    p11-kit: /etc/pkcs11/modules/typesafe-repo-public.asc: invalid config line: —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
    Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~oliver-berten/+archive/misc) to get PPA information, please check your internet connection.

  8. leogaggl May 8, 2012

    @Francesco: Works fine for me on both 11.10 as well as 12.04

  9. mchillair May 11, 2012

    This rely helped. Thanx a lot.

  10. sameem May 16, 2012

    thanks for sharing, realy working well.

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