Does anyone have any good ideas as to native MySQL GUI clients for Ubuntu?
So far I've tried MySQL Workbench, which never seemed to work properly, phpMyAdmin which I found a bit slow, and Navicat which is a windows port and runs under wine, but none of these is perfect. In an ideal world, I'm looking for something like a native version of navicat.
Sadly, you can't find these in the Ubuntu Software Centre in later versions of Ubuntu any more. This is because these two pieces of software have reached their end-of-life, and are no longer supported.
MySQL Workbench 
is probably the most complete tool, but a bit sluggish according to me.
I prefer "MySQL Query browser" and "MySQL Administrator". These two can do all basic stuff, and are very user friendly.
I like Emma. Emma is an open source project that isn't developed by Oracle.
Emma is available from the Ubuntu repositories in older versions of Ubuntu. Run:
sudo apt install emma
In newer versions of Ubuntu, Emma is no longer available in the Ubuntu repositories. See this question.
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GUI tools that have not been mentioned here, that I know work under Linux without WINE:
Disclosure: I work for Ocelot.
I use Adminer. It's very lightweight and with a clear web interface. It's an alternative to phpMyAdmin.
It can be installed like this:
sudo apt-get install adminer
sudo a2enconf adminer
sudo systemctl reload apache2
Then open http://localhost/adminer
But if you want newer versions you should install manually:
I'm definitely late to answer here, but a friend and I were fed up of the overcomplicated Java Swing apps, so we built our own open source SQL editor & Database manager. It's 100% Open source - GPLv3 licensed.
Works great on Linux (I'm a Linux user), Windows, and MacOS, and we support loads of databases.
It's really modern compared to many of those listed here, but doesn't have as many advanced features, so it is not as well suited for DBAs, but it's GREAT for regular developers.
Full version: Beekeeper Studio
Open Source version: GitHub
At the time of editing (May 2024), Beekeeper Studio has over 1.25 million downloads, and 15,000 GitHub stars, so it's a mature and well-liked app!
Hope someone else likes using it as much as I do!
MySQL workbench does work on Ubuntu 11.xx but it will hang at some of the loading splash screens. You just need to use Alt+F4 to close the splash window and it will continue.
dbeaver (https://github.com/serge-rider/dbeaver) is good option aswell, i would disadvice mysql workbench because it is really unstable (on 16.04 and 14.04)
I solved this problem with the following method (I used to install quanta+ 3.5 in ubuntu 12.04. In the same repositories you can find mysql gui tools):
The tutorial is in this blog article.
Follow the tutorial, and replace:
sudo apt-get install quanta
with:
sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser mysql-admin
but maybe it is mysql-gui-tools, but i'm not sure.
One possibility is using SQLExplorer, either as an Eclipse plugin or a standalone "RCP" application. I use it as a plugin, but you can download a Linux standalone version, too. To start the standalone version extract it and execute the sqlexplorer file.
It's being actively developed (last version was in April 2013) and for many people IDE integration is a plus.
