Dependency error while installing mysql workbench on ubuntu 12.04

Question

I am trying to install mysql workbench. I am getting below error. It seems that it looks for mysql in some default directory. I have all the required things installed, but not where mysqlworkbench is expecting it to be. Whats the way out!

local@host:/var/www/$ sudo apt-get -f install mysql-workbench
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-workbench : Depends: libctemplate0 but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.13-1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libtinyxml2.6.2 but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libzip2 (>= 0.10) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: mysql-workbench-data (= 5.2.38+dfsg-3) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: mysql-client
                   Depends: python-mysql.connector but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: python-paramiko but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: python-pysqlite2 but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: python-all but it is not going to be installed
                   Recommends: ttf-bitstream-vera but it is not going to be installed
                   Recommends: mysql-utilities but it is not installable
 mysql-workbench-community : Depends: libctemplate2 but it is not installable
                             Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9) but 2.32.3-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
                             Depends: libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.33.13) but 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
                             Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.13-1) but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: libpcrecpp0 (>= 7.7) but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: libtinyxml2.6.2 but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: libzip2 (>= 0.10) but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: python-paramiko but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: mysql-client
                             Depends: python-pysqlite2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Answer 1

You probably ran

dpkg -i mysql-workbench.deb

which doesn't work as dpkg does not resolve dependencies and now the installation of MySQL Workbench is broken. Run this command instead:

sudo apt-get -f install

After that MySQL Workbench should be installed fine.

Also keep in mind that we provide downloads for Ubuntu (select Ubuntu Linux from the drop down).