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2.3.1. Installing the Generic Tarball

The generic tar archive allows you to install MySQL GUI Tools on most Linux distributions. The tarball file is called mysql-gui-tools-version.tar.gz, where version indicates the MySQL GUI Tools version (for example, 5.0r3).

To see all files in the tarball, run this command: 

shell> tar -tzf  mysql-gui-tools-version.tar.gz

To install MySQL GUI Tools, run this command: 

shell> tar --directory=/opt -xzvf mysql-gui-tools-version.tar.gz

This installs the various application binaries in the directory, /opt/mysql-gui-tools-version.

If you install MySQL GUI Tools to the opt directory, icons for use with desktop shortcuts or for creating menu items are found under the opt/mysql-gui-tools-version/share/mysql-gui directory.