Bug #68078 MySQL workbench fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10 due to dependency issues
Submitted: 14 Jan 2013 9:35 Modified: 14 Jan 2013 18:07
Reporter: c long Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: Administration Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.45 OS:Linux
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: installation, mysql-workbench, ubuntu 12.10

[14 Jan 2013 9:35] c long
Description:
Download mysql-workbench-gpl-5.2.45-1ubu1204-amd64.deb
Try to install with dpkg -i. Fails with the following errors:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 mysql-workbench-gpl : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15) but 2.13-20ubuntu5.2 is to be installed
                       Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8) but 2.30.0-0ubuntu4 is to be installed
                       Depends: libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.32.0) but 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
                       Depends: libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.13-1) but it is not installable
                       Depends: libzip2 (>= 0.10) but it is not installable
                       Depends: python-pysqlite2 but it is not going to be installed

My Ubuntu system is up-to-date as of 14-01-2013.

How to repeat:
On Ubuntu 12.10
Download mysql-workbench-gpl-5.2.45-1ubu1204-amd64.deb
dpkg -i mysql-workbench-gpl-5.2.45-1ubu1204-amd64.deb

Suggested fix:
Change dependency versions.