In addition to a generic tarball, some distribution-specific RPMs are available. Currently these include Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4, Fedora Core 5 (FC5), and SuSE Linux 10.x. For FC5 and SuSE the gtkmm24 toolkit is a requirement for installing the RPM version of MySQL GUI Tools. You may also need to install the widget for displaying HTML pages. On FC5 you may install these RPMs from the command line in the following way:

shell> yum install gtkmm24 gtkhtml2
 

For installation on SuSE Linux:

shell> yast2 -i gtkmm24 gtkhtml2

The Red Hat RPMs are self contained so no additional packages need to be installed.

The RPM downloads are made up of the individual GUI Tools components combined into a single TAR archive. Extract the individual RPMs in the following way:

shell> tar -zxf mysql-gui-tools-version.tar.gz
 

This will decompress the RPM files to the current directory.

Install all the RPM files by typing:

shell> rpm -ivh mysql-*.rpm

If you are upgrading to a newer version of MySQL GUI Tools see Section 5.2.2, “RPM Upgrade”.

If you install the RPM files individually, you must install the mysql-gui-tools-version.rpm file first in order to satisfy dependencies.

If you wish, you may install only one of the MySQL GUI Tools. For example, to install MySQL Administrator only, do the following:

shell> rpm -ivh mysql-gui-toolsversion.rpm mysql-administratorversion.rpm

If possible, the RPM installation process creates shortcuts in the start menu of your window manager. For example, SuSE Linux with the KDE window manager adds shortcuts to the MySQL GUI Tools under the Development, Other Tools menu item. Likewise, with FC5, shortcuts are created under the Development menu item.

Icons for use with desktop shortcuts or for creating menu items are found under the /usr/share/mysql-gui directory.

See the MySQL GUI Tools Downloads page for the most up-to-date listing of the various RPM packages available.