Download Generic x86 tarball from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html mv mysql-gui-tools-5.0 /usr/local/ Create symlinks to PATH location: ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-query-browser-bin /usr/local/bin/mysql-query-browser-bin ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-query-browser /usr/local/bin/mysql-query-browser ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-administrator /usr/local/bin/mysql-administrator ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-administrator-bin /usr/local/bin/mysql-administrator-bin Create symlinks to /usr/local/share ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/locale /usr/local/share/locale ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-gui /usr/local/share/mysql-gui Almost done.. At this point mysql-administrator should be fully working. However with mysql-quer-browser, […]