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MySQL Workbench on ubuntu AMD64

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

MySQL workbench will help you design your MySQL Database.

The only problem is, binaries are not available for Linux amd64 machines. (Again, I kick myself for choosing amd64).
So, what a normal Linux guy does? – Obviously, download the source code, compile and try to run. I have done just that, created a debian package (after making sure all lib dependencies are met).

But, the workbench does not start. I get a very nice splash screen, but that’s it:

Mysql workbench

I must admit, after some more fiddling, trying, guessing, I started a Windows vitual machine (over Virtualbox) downloaded the windows installation, and it works perfectly.