Installing MySQL Workbench from Source on Fedora 12
Here is a quick tutorial on how to install MySQL Workbench on Fedora 12, as there are some unique things you need before it will install correctly.
First, download the source code tar ball from dev.mysql.com here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench
Next, unpack the tarball into a directory of your choice, open a terminal, and cd into that directory where you unpacked the source.
You will need root priviliges for the install so you can do so by running either su or sudo -s.
You will need to run the following command to install the librarys required by MySQL Workbench.
yum install libtool
libzip libzip-devel glib2 glib-devel2 libxml2 libxml2-devel libsigc++20 libsigc++20-devel libglade2 libglade2-devel gtkmm24 gtkmm24-devel libgnome libgnome-devel boost boost-devel libuuid libuuid-devel lua lua-devel pcre pcre-devel mysql mysql-devel
Next run sh autogen.sh
Then make
And then finally make install
If the whole process succeeded, the MySQL Workbench binary should be /usr/local/bin/mysql-workbench