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Installing MySQL Workbench 5.2.15b on Gentoo Linux Part 2

Nice one! Less than two days after i wrote the last post mysql-workbench-5.2.15 was available in portage. With less dependencies and no worries about python libraries and stuff.

Non-gnome users should add two lines to their /etc/portage/package.use file:


gnome-base/gvfs gnome
net-libs/libsoup gnome


Afterwards just running

emerge -av mysql-workbench

should do any further steps.

But wait: whole new package and no bugs? Of course not. Seems like the ebuild misses a dependency for dev-libs/boost. Its not installed as a dep when you install mysql-workbench. The build of workbench will fail if its not installed yet though.

So before emerging mysql-workbench you should check if boost is installed and emerge it otherwise:

emerge -av boost && emerge mysql-workbench