MySQL Bugs: #3665: Error in installation script

Bug #3665	Error in installation script
Submitted:	5 May 2004 18:30	Modified:	12 Jul 2004 2:21
Reporter:	Jon Roland	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Administrator	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.0.2b	OS:	Linux (Fedora Core 1)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
On your page http://www.mysql.com/products/administrator/faq.html and in the "MySQL Administrator FAQ.txt" you have the installation script

gunzip -c mysql-administrator-1.0.2b-alpha-linux.tar.gz | tar xv -C /opt

Since the tarball has the files with a relative address of opt/* and not /opt/* this installs the files into /opt/opt/mysql-administrator, which is clearly not what was intended. The obvious solution is to change the script to

gunzip -c mysql-administrator-1.0.2b-alpha-linux.tar.gz | tar xv -C /

It should also be pointed out that on many systems this will need to be done as root.

And, contrary to the instructions, a copy or link to the executable is not put in /usr/local/bin. The user has to do that himself, which can be done with the command

ln -s /opt/mysql-administrator/bin/mysql-administrator /usr/local/bin

Finally, the instructions should state that among the files is MySQLAdministrtor.desktop which can be copied to the user's Desktop directory to create a launcher.

How to repeat:
Read the instruction files.

Suggested fix:
Edit the instruction pages.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of that product, which you can download at 
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/