Get MySQL Workbench working on Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dilantha

MySQL Workbench doesn’t work out of the box in the latest Ubuntu. These steps will get it working until Oracle gets around to updating the official package

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl

Source: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62347

Update: Don’t know if Oracle has fixed this yet. This works in the latest Linux Mint as well.

27 thoughts on “Get MySQL Workbench working on Ubuntu 11.10”

Dimitri on November 3, 2011 at 2:06 am said:

THUMBS UP! I’ve been looking for this the whole time. THX
Hermann on November 4, 2011 at 6:50 pm said:

THX.
works great here. Was the only showstopper for the 6 new Linux Workstation in our Company.
Greetings from Germany
kao on November 4, 2011 at 7:52 pm said:

Tnx – works fine , just what I needed
Rich on November 7, 2011 at 8:09 pm said:

perfect!
voiger on November 10, 2011 at 2:57 pm said:

Thank you very much!
elhanan mishraki on November 10, 2011 at 3:51 pm said:

Hy,
Thanks!
Would it be good for an amd64 installation?
Nick on November 11, 2011 at 5:48 pm said:

Thank you! 11.10 had been frustrating the hell out of me over this.
keaz on November 15, 2011 at 4:21 pm said:

work perfect here… thanks fnd…
Satish on November 16, 2011 at 1:56 pm said:

you saved my life….
Edmund on November 16, 2011 at 3:39 pm said:

Thanks for sharing, worked perfectly.
Dilantha on November 16, 2011 at 7:14 pm said:

Not sure don’t have a 64 bit Ubuntu to test. Will see if I can get it checked out.
sirius zhuang on November 18, 2011 at 9:08 pm said:

THX.
I’d like the MySQL workbench more than the DBDesigner!
Neeraj Singh on November 19, 2011 at 9:28 pm said:

Thanks, Friend for Share,
Work Grate For Me. I am using Ubuntu 11.10. with mysql work bench v.5.2.35
Keep it up
Cheers!!!!
bodhi on November 22, 2011 at 1:53 am said:

Verified that this works on ubuntu 11.10, 64-bit. Thanks!
Dilantha on November 22, 2011 at 9:54 am said:

Thanks bodhi looks like Oracle hasn’t got around to releasing a 11.10 version yet
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.2.html#downloads
Piotr on November 28, 2011 at 3:13 am said:

Thanks, works like a charm.
JOEL on November 29, 2011 at 5:37 am said:

Wonderful!
MANY THANKS!
You’ve saved many MySQL projects!
lex on November 29, 2011 at 11:25 pm said:

nice job. Works fine on Ubuntu 11.10 amd64
Adlene on November 30, 2011 at 3:03 am said:

Thanks a lot. It works perfectly. You saved my project.
Adlene Sifi
Pierre-Yves Langlois on November 30, 2011 at 8:52 pm said:

Thanks! (slash / barre oblique) Merci!
charwhee on December 4, 2011 at 8:17 am said:

Thanks so much!
RaulFV on December 10, 2011 at 2:01 am said:

Wonderful, Thanks !
kapil on December 20, 2011 at 7:25 am said:

Thanks as ton !!!
holland on March 27, 2012 at 3:54 am said:

Thanks a ton! Still using this in 2012.
ajaxjson on March 31, 2012 at 1:19 am said:

nice job. Works fine on Ubuntu 11.10 amd64
pencetkibot on April 11, 2012 at 8:29 am said:

thanks a lot
installing now
yassine on May 7, 2012 at 12:26 am said:

sounds like i’m the only one havin’ problems
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Unable to locate package mysql-workbench-gpl
iWill be gratefull if someone could help me

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Get MySQL Workbench working on Ubuntu 11.10

27 thoughts on “Get MySQL Workbench working on Ubuntu 11.10”

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