Installing MySQL Query Browser on Fedora Core 5
I was visiting my parents back in Vermont last week, but right before I left I decided I wanted to install MySQL’s Query browser. Running mysql from the command line works, but sometimes it is nice to have a GIU, especially since the program has help docs for syntax, multiple tabs open with queries and expandable table views (I always forget the names of rows in my tables while writing queries).
Fortuitously, I decided to search around before installing the program, and I quickly realized it wasn’t as easy as issuing a yum command. I located a binary suitable for Fedora Core 5, and issued “ yum list installed | grep gtkhtml” and “yum list installed | grep gtkmm” to see if I had the prerequisite programs (gtkhtml3 and gtkmm24), as listed on the website with the binaries. I didn’t have either of those, so I ran “sudo yum install gtkhtml3” and “sudo yum install gtkmm24”. Once those were installed, I downloaded the binary and MySQL Query Browser is working fine. Looking at the output from the previous yum list installed command, I have gtkhtml2, gtkhtml3 & gtkhtml36 - I can’t remember now whether I also installed gtkhtml2 and gtkhtml36 for good measure, or if they were already there…