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The download site only provide RPM for Fedora 11 i386 and x86_64. My repository provides RPM for Fedora 9, 10 and 11, for i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64. Previous Fedora versions doesn't have the required dependencies (p.e. : cairo >= 1.5)

As always :

yum --enablerepo=remi install mysql-workbench

Of course, it was build with mysql-5.1.37-1

Those who don't want to upgrade MySQL could use the compatibility library mysqlclient16.

Patches for Bug #45629 and Bug #45797 have been merged upstream.

For a good packaging, it is necessary to use system libraries rather than bundled ones. Done for curl, libsigc++, boost, yassl (switch to openssl) and mysql-connector-c++. I need more work for scintilla and ctemplate (if you are curious, compare the size of officials RPM to mine).

To be followed on MySQL Workbench 5.1.17 Available