In addition to a generic tarball, some distribution-specific RPMs are available. Currently these include Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4, Fedora Core 5 (FC5), and SuSE Linux 10.x. For FC5 and SuSE the gtkmm24 toolkit is a requirement for installing the RPM version of MySQL GUI Tools. On FC5 you may install this toolkit from the command line in the following way:

shell> yum -install gtkmm24
 

For installation on SuSE Linux:

shell> yast2 -i gtkmm24
 

The Red Hat RPMs are self contained so no additional packages need to be installed.

The RPM downloads are made up of the individual GUI Tools components combined into a single TAR archive. Extract the individual RPMs in the following way:

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

This will decompress the RPM files to the current directory.

Install all the RPM files by typing:

shell> rpm -iv mysql-*.rpm
 

If you are upgrading to a newer version of MySQL GUI Tools type:

shell> rpm -Uv mysql-*.rpm

If you install the RPM files individually, you must install the mysql-gui-tools-version.rpm file first in order to satisfy dependencies.

When upgrading, packages cannot be installed separately because version conflicts will arise.

If you wish, you may install only one of the MySQL GUI Tools. For example, to install MySQL Administrator only, do the following:

shell> rpm -iv mysql-gui-toolsversion.rpm mysql-administratorversion.rpm 

If possible, the RPM installation process creates shortcuts in the start menu of your window manager. For example, SuSE Linux with the KDE window manager adds shortcuts to the MySQL GUI Tools under the Development, Other Tools menu item. Likewise, with FC5, shortcuts are created under the Development menu item.

Icons for use with desktop shortcuts or for creating menu items are found under the /usr/share/mysql-gui directory.

See the MySQL GUI Tools Downloads page for the most up-to-date listing of the various RPM packages available.