Re: request: wb.deb

Carl Karsten wrote:

Hi!

> That got it up, but trying to edit a table (like to add some fields)
> /usr/local/bin/mysql-workbench: line 13: 16429 Segmentation fault

I think this is a known bug. Its now hard to debug, because the binaries 
were stripped

> I can live with the segfault - it's an alpha version.  having to 
> research what dependencies are needed is asking a bit much.  (I would 
> have given up had it not been for someone in IRC giving me the list of 
> packages I needed.)

Don't forget to look at the various blogs about this

> So, can the next release be packaged as a .deb?  Ideally host a repo so 
> that updates will roll into apt-get update, but even just being able to do
> sudo gdebi mysql-workbench-5.1.1-alpha-ubuntu8-i386.deb
> is a step in the right direction.

I presume deb's and rpm's will be available as Workbench becomes more 
stable. A repository might be a far stretch, but you should get native 
packages

> I would hope both .deb and repo is on the todo list anyway, and I think 
> the sooner it is done the better.  it will lower the barrier, so more 
> people will try it more often.

Agreed


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