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Running fabForce DBDesigner4 in Linux Fedora 8

I’m posting this hoping that is will save somebody several wasted hours of effort.

Do not use the original DBDesigner4 download available on the fabForce.net website. Instead download the dbdesigner-fork package from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbdesigner-fork/

Once you have unpacked it. Edit the bin/startdbd_using_kernel2.6 script and remove the assume kernel 2.4.1 text:

Original file contents: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./Linuxlib/ ./DBDesignerFork

Edited contents: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./Linuxlib/ ./DBDesignerFork

Save it and run it. It should all work as expected on Linux Fedora 8 or indeed any other modern distribution like Ubuntu, etc.

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8 Responses to “Running fabForce DBDesigner4 in Linux Fedora 8”

  1. Erich Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    Yup, you saved me hours of work. Thanks.

  2. Ben Haines Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Hi Erich,

    Glad to hear it worked for you too. Sadly I believe the mysql driver needs replacing as it wouldn’t connect to the db once I’d started it up.

  3. Erich Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    I’m seeing that, too. Back in FC5 there was a mysql-compat package that would provide a working libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0, but that does not seem to exist.

    Mysql AB has something called Mysql Workbench (formerly DBDesigner) but they only released it in alpha for windows.

  4. Erich Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=125911&page=2

    has some information on getting DBdesigner to work on Ubuntu, which consists of getting some rpms, using alien to move those into deb format, and then installing and editing config files.

  5. Winskie Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 3:37 am

    You just saved my day! Thanks a lot for tip.

  6. neal Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    fantastic. as a newbie to linux i’d never have found out how to get it going. cheers :)

  7. Vivek Says:
    February 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Hey, thanks a lot.. I was just wondering how to get it started.
    Whenever I find a problem with linux a single google search usually gives me the answer.. :-)

  8. Carlo Vaccari Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Great!
    Thanks a lot! :-)
    I was loosing myself in dependencies and old sources …
    But why MySQL Workbench is available only for Windows?

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