How to practice myself on Linux mint

Hi I'm trying to install mysql and mysql workbench on Linux mint without much success. I tried installing from source and with snapd and both failed. What's the best way to install the necessary software to practice myself code on Linux mint? Thanks.

both of them can work (snap and source). Would be nice to explain what did you try and what's happened. Without details hard to help you.
(and if you need help with mysql please edit the title to mention it)

Originally Posted by Al99 Hi I'm trying to install mysql and mysql workbench on Linux mint without much success. I tried installing from source and with snapd and both failed. What's the best way to install the necessary software to practice myself code on Linux mint? Thanks.

You've been using Linux for three years now, and didn't follow up in any of your other threads. You don't tell us what version of Mint, what you did to install these things, what error(s)/message(s) you got, etc. We can't guess.

Second, why would you install either MySQL or MySQL Workbench from SOURCE??? You can install it through the online repositories. Should be able to do "apt install mysql-server", and mysqlworkbench can be installed as well (providing you have repos configured for it).

Originally Posted by Al99 Hi I'm trying to install mysql and mysql workbench on Linux mint without much success. I tried installing from source and with snapd and both failed. What's the best way to install the necessary software to practice myself code on Linux mint? Thanks.

1. Go to https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/#downloads

2. Select Ubuntu and Download both files:
mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.deb
and
"signature"

3. Check the MD5 hash, but that is insufficient alone:
md5sum mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.deb

4. Check the OpenPGP signature (sufficient alone by itself):

4a. Copy-paste the Public Key to a file "mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.openpgp" from https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.2...signature.html near the bottom of the page.

4b. Verify the authenticity of the downloaded package using Sequoia:

sq verify --signer-cert mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.deb.openpgp --detached mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.deb.asc mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.deb

it should say,

Good signature from 467B942D3A79BD29
1 good signature.

5. If the signature is good, then install

sudo dpkg -i mysql-workbench-community_8.0.34-1ubuntu23.04_amd64.deb


Normally steps 3 and 4 are handled automatically by the package manager. Since this method does not use the normal repository, it has to be done by hand. I normally avoid packages which are not in the repository, but at least this one has a .deb package for APT.

MySQL is another matter, you need to know (or set) the database's root password. Just to be clear, that's root for the database, not root for the operating system.