Bug #37102 MySQL Query Browser - Missing Help Contents
Submitted: 30 May 2008 13:23 Modified: 26 May 2009 13:12
Reporter: Colin Dean Email Updates:
Status: Unsupported Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Query Browser Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:1.2.12 OS:Linux (fedora 7)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[30 May 2008 13:23] Colin Dean 
Description:
mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-1fc5.i386.rpm installs its documentation into /usr/share/doc/query-browser, but running MySQL Query Browser, making a connection and then clicking on Help - Contents, brings up a blank help tab with no contents, while a message appears on stderr:

 (mysql-query-browser-bin:23842): glibmm-CRITICAL **: 
  unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
  domain: g-file-error-quark
  code  : 4
  what  : Failed to open file
  '/usr/share/doc/packages/mysql-query-browser/query-browser.html': No such file or directory

suggesting it's being asked to look in the wrong place.

How to repeat:
1. Install mysql-gui-tools-5.0r12-1fc5.i386.rpm and
 mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-1fc5.i386.rpm on any recent Fedora

2. Run /usr/bin/mysql-administrator from a terminal window

3. Connect to a MySQL server

4. Select "Contents" from "Help" pulldown menu.

Note: If you first select "Quick Start Guide" from the "Help" menu, this does appear ok, but then nothing changes (other than the title of the Help tab) if you select "Contents" - you still see the quick start guide.

Suggested fix:
I would also suggest, that for Red Hat and Fedora RPMs, it would be more conventional to build them so that documentation is installed in somewhere like

  /usr/share/doc/mysql-query-browser-1.2.12

as that follows the usual naming and numbering convention for RPM documentation. /usr/share/doc/administrator is far too general.

This is probably a similar packaging problem to Bug #37100 - MySQL Administrator - broken Help.
[30 May 2008 13:36] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the bug report.
[6 Sep 2008 6:57] ashok kapare 
mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-1fc5.i386 dependencies
libatkmm-1.6.so.1
libatkmm-2.4.so.1
[6 Sep 2008 6:58] ashok kapare 
how to download these files?
[26 May 2009 13:12] Susanne Ebrecht 
Many thanks for writing a bug report. We are on the way to implement full functionality of MySQL Query Browser into MySQL Workbench. Unfortunately you are using an unsupported platform. More informations about supported platforms you will find here:

http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/tools.html

More informations about MySQL Workbench you will find here:

http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/