Database Designer

What works

Everything works perfectly.

 I just followed these instructions. You can see the whole installing-running process here.

What does not

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Workarounds

What was not tested

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Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The part about jet40 and mdac28 in this post, I doubt that Mr. Sherlock installed these. I think this was the reason of the software not working properly.

Preface

“When’s the Linux version coming out?” - David Fetter was asking me.

“I can’t answer this question yet” - was the answer.

But the magic happens. I succeeded to launch Database Designer for PostgreSQL in Wine. The instructions below will help you start Database Designer for MySQL either.

Platform

All my tests were made using:

• Ubuntu 8.10 “Inteprid”
• Wine 1.0.1 (stable) and 1.1.13 (development)
• Winetricks version 20090117

Despite the fact that Wine 1.1.13 marked as development version I strongly suggest you to use exactly this release. Because in 1.0.1 there are a lot of visual artefacts, however functionality is stable.

Configure Wine

Since Database Designer for PostgreSQL uses Microsoft Data Access Components for its Universal and MS Access Database Reverse Engineering we must install appropriate redistributable runtime libraries:

$sh winetricks jet40 mdac28

jet40 - MS Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8
mdac28 - MS MDAC 2.8: Microsoft ODBC drivers, etc.

After this we already can use application with its full functionality. However, fonts used in Designer appear ridged. To fix this we need to install Microsoft Core Fonts (Arial, Courier, Times etc.), but we need to make sure  cabextract utility is present in our system.

In case of Ubuntu we can use the following command to install it:

$sudo apt-get install cabextract

For other distributions it is better to check manuals. To install core fonts we run:

$sh winetricks corefonts

Wine Application Database

In Wine Application Database you can get information on application compatibility with Wine. There are entries for both Database Designers: for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

By the way, you have a good chance to get a free Personal License. Provide some great examples of using Database Designers and results you got under Wine, and receive a license key for free! If you publish them as an article (in your blog, for example), this is only a big plus. Requirements: created with MicroOLAP software, step by step description (How did you make it?), screenshots of the steps taken.

Write a review of MicroOLAP software and publish it on Wine Application Database web-site. You will get a free Personal License key as a reward.

Our goal is to make Database Designers Platinum list member of Wine Application Database. As for now it appears to be Gold List member.