On Deb testing here. I'd like to install MySQL GUI Tools. Unfortunately, none of mysql-gui-tools, mysql-query-browser or mysql-admin seem to exist in the repository anymore. Anyone know where/how I can get them on debian?

Note, I'm *not* looking for MySQL Workbench or phpMyAdmin, but rather the one with MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Administartor. And yes, I know it's been discontinued in favor of MySQL Workbench. Old or not, discontinued or not, I'm still looking to install MySQL GUI Tools anyway.

I have an installer for the windows version, so I'll try that under wine, but naturally I'd rather use a proper linux version if possible.

Secondarily, any recommendations for similar GUI (proper GUI, not web) tools, that aren't MySQL Workbench, would also be welcome.

Hi Abscissa256,

If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you want a packaged form of the non-Workbench, old MySQL GUI.

Since Package Managment can be quite handy, I keep thinking there might be a directory somewhere, of PPA's which people have made publically available, instead of just the few individual publically available PPA's I have heard about, from time to time. :-O

Sadly, if there is such a thing, I don't know where. I'm likewise unaware of any good place for the type of thing you want.

BUT, if you're willing to use a non-packaged version, I was fairly easily able to find, what they claim are old Compressed Tar files containing older versions of the GUI for Linux, here:

MySQL website Download Archives

Please note, some of the old versions only show a download for MS-Windoze, so I almost didn't find the Linux downloads.

HTH.

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Ahh, thank you!! They have a "Generic Linux" for v5.0.12. Since they had "discontinued" it, it didn't occur to me to even *consider* they may still offer downloads of it. So I just checked the debian repos, the oldversion.com site, and did some web searches, and came up with squat.

I've just downloaded it now, fingers crossed I can get it to install and work ok...

I followed the "Installing Generic Tarball" instructions on page 13 (aka page 3) at <http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/guibook-en.a4.pdf> and did this:

And it seems to be working!

There are a few issues, but none of them appear to me anything major so I'll just deal with them later:

- Fonts are gigantic (But I think this is a GTK issue. I assume it's using GTK. Big-n-chunky screen-wasting UIs usually are... :/ )

- Aren't available through the default PATH, but that's easily fixed with a couple symlinks.

- It didn't automatically get added to KDE's *ahem* "Start" menu.

- Initially, Query Browser's UI layout seemed a bit different from what it usually is, but then I ran it a second time and now it's back to normal, albiet with a weird 90's-linux font now. Don't know WTF is up with that, but whatever, it's usable

Again, these don't appear to be any real major problems, most should be easily fixable or ignorable. So that's cool.