MySQL Administrator :: 2.3 Installing Under Linux

MySQL Administrator runs on Linux machines that have a graphical desktop installed. It is designed to run under the Gnome desktop, but you may also use other desktops, such as KDE, as long as GTK2 is installed. It has been tested on Linux kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6, but it should also run on other versions, and even on a number of Unix-like operating systems.

To install MySQL Administrator, first download the installation tarball. The tarball file is called mysql-administrator-version-linux.tar.gz, where version indicates the MySQL Administrator version (for example 1.0.12).

To see all files in the tarball, run this command:

    
    shell> tar -tzf  mysql-administrator-version-linux.tar.gz
   

To install MySQL Administrator, run this command:

    
    shell> tar --directory=/opt -xzvf mysql-administrator-version-linux.tar.gz
   

This installs the application binary in /opt/mysql-administrator/bin. Change into that directory and run mysql-administrator to start the application.

Distribution-specific packages will be available at some point.