MySQL Bugs: #22711: GUI tools fail to install on SuSE 10.1

Bug #22711	GUI tools fail to install on SuSE 10.1
Submitted:	26 Sep 2006 20:17	Modified:	4 Oct 2006 15:07
Reporter:	Occo Eric Nolf	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Administrator	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	1.2	OS:	Linux (Linux SuSE 10.1)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I'm surprised not to find a bug report concerning this matter, as there are numerous reports on the web reporting these same problems.
Ah well, someone will have to be the first ... :-)

The problem concerns installation of the GUI tools under SuSE 10.1.

Initially, I downloaded package mysql-gui-tools-5.0r3-suse10-i386.tar.gz which contains 4 rpm packages, 1 for each GUI tool. Installation of these packages failed: a long list of missing libraries was specified, and after some investigation these libraries turned out to be part of the gtkmm24 package.
However, installing the gtkmm24 package doesn't solve the problem: even though the libraries are all correctly installed, they're still reported as missing by the install routine.

Exactly the same problem occurs when downloading and installing the GUI packages separately.
For good measure I tried downloading from several sites - all with the same result.

There is another option: download and compile the source packages.
However, I'm unwilling to try this as there are lots of reports out on the web from people who did that and now keep running into segment errors. I've seen enough of those in my time, so I prefer to wait for a better solution :)

This problem appears to be critical: as far as I can see, there is simply no safe way to get GUI tools running on SuSE 10.1 - and quite likely, on a host of other Linux systems as well.

Regards,
OEN

How to repeat:
Try installing GUI tools under SuSE 10.1 (and possibly, other Linux systems as well).

Hi 

Can you paste the complete output from RPM when you try to install?

I was unable to repeat this issue. First I got conflicts with files of prior
version 5.02r, then I removed that rpm and performed the install without any
problems:

light:/home/miguel/down # rpm -i mysql-administrator-5.0r3-1suse10.i586.rpm
light:/home/miguel/down # cat /etc/issue

Welcome to SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).

light:/home/miguel/down #

MySQL Administrator on Suse 10.1 X86

Attachment: admin-on-suse10-1.PNG (image/png, text), 98.65 KiB.

Miguel, you are completely right.
Somehow (and I still don't understand how it could happen) there has been a mix-up of x86 and x86-64 packages.

I'm terribly sorry for any inconvenience caused - please accept my apologies.

OEN

Closed as the problem was not a result of bug in MySQL's code.