Installing DBDesigner 4.0.5 on Ubuntu (32bits) 14.04 and solving libborqt error

1 Introduction

This post show step-by-step how to install DBDesigner tool into Ubuntu 14.04 32bits

2 Step-by-Step

2.1 Download DBDesigner from fabForce site or download 

Enter site http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ and look for Linux 32bits i386 file. I used this file http://fabforce.net/downloadfile.php?iddownloadfile=2

2.2 Uncompress tar.gz file download

$ cd ~/Downloads/
$ tar -zxvf DBDesigner4.0.5.4.tar.gz 

2.3 Enter DBDesigner subdirectory and try to run it. If the result is an error trying to open sared object "libborqt*.so" then follow the next steps

$ cd DBDesigner4/
$ ./DBDesigner4
libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2.4 Download library from Kylix and uncompress 

$ cd ~/Downloads/
$ wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kylixlibs/kylixlibs3-borqt-3.0-2.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf kylixlibs3-borqt-3.0-2.tar.gz

2.5 Move correct version of library 'libborqt' to '/usr/lib' and adjust permissions

$ cd kylixlibs3-borqt/
$ sudo mv libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so /usr/lib
$ sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so
$ sudo chmod ugo+r /usr/lib/libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so

2.6 Create a symbolic link from expected file name of library to correct version of library

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so /usr/lib/libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so

2.7 Install another required libraries 'libjpeg62'

$ sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386

2.8 Run DBDesigner successfully

$ cd DBDesigner4/
$ ./DBDesigner4

3. References

• http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/artigo/Instalacao-e-correcao-de-erros-do-DBDesigner-4-no-Linux
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/313691/missing-libjpeg-so-62-from-ia32-shared-library