I am sorry to post on the wrong thread. Why I am posting 640-460 introduction here? I could not found the introduction thread. I just joined this community and do not want to go out without posting any comments. I have decided to become the permananet member of this useful community. My name is jack and I work in a wireless internet company in New York. I am studying master of computer sciences.
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In my debian lenny I just added this repo:

deb http://www.repositorios.pr.gov.br/celepar/ veryoldstable main contrib

then, just install:

aptitude install dbdesigner4

launch and enjoy:

DBDesigner4

Package appears to be non authenticated but I think there's not problem.

its a pity that link's dead. I don't get it working myself! ist there any way to get this dummy package or an explanation what it does?
greetings, heinz

I've found a solution here:
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?113,57867,176468#msg-176468
so you have to download a package from http://www.wesmo.com/rpm2html/contributed/RPMS/MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9...
and change
VendorLibLinux=libmysqlclient.so to VendorLibLinux=libmysqlclient.so.10
at ~/DBDesigner4/DBConn.ini and ~/DBDesigner4/DBConn_DefaultSettings.ini

For installing MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm package in debian:
$ sudo alien --to-tgz MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm
$ sudo tar xzvfp MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.9.tgz -C /

Blessings!

In order to install DBDesigner 4 in Debian lenny, follow the first 5 steps of the previous HOWTO, then:
6. Download libs required by DBDesigner4:
$ wget http://www.silcom.com.pe/soft/xlibs_6.8.2-77_all.deb
$ wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kylixlibs/kylixlibs3-borqt_...

7. I've made a dummy and empty package to fix dependencies:
$ wget http://develcuy.com/files/debian/xkeyboard-config_0.1.0_all.deb

8. Final installation:
$ sudo dpkg -i xkeyboard-config.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i xlibs_6.8.2-77_all.deb kylixlibs3-borqt_3.0-1_i386.deb

9. Run from /opt/DBDesigner4/DBDesigner4

That's all folks
Blessings!