How can I use MySQL Workbench in Kali Linux

ChineseWonton · June 2, 2025, 11:40am

Currently my only method of installing MySQL is using Docker to run MySQL-Workbench in a container:

Requirements:

Docker

This code worked:

sudo docker run -d \
--name=mysql-workbench-host \
--cap-add=IPC_LOCK \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=Asia/Manila \
-p 3000:3000 \
 -p 3001:3001 \
-v ~/mysql-workbench-config:/config \
--restart unless-stopped \
lscr.io/linuxserver/mysql-workbench:latest

Let’s try if this code will work.
- 2025-June-02
  - sudo docker run -d \ --name=mysql-workbench-host \ --cap-add=IPC_LOCK \ -e PUID=1000 \ -e PGID=1000 \ -e TZ=Asia/Manila \ -v ~/mysql-workbench-config:/config \ --network=host \ --restart unless-stopped \ lscr.io/linuxserver/mysql-workbench:latest
    - Yeah this code works
    - Set this container as if it’s the host.
    - set’s network as the host.

aihm79 · June 2, 2025, 2:04pm

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denartha · June 2, 2025, 4:22pm

This might be a stupid question but have you read this:

ChineseWonton · June 3, 2025, 7:47am

hello denartha:

┌────────────────────────┤ Configuring mysql-apt-config ├────────────────────────┐  
 │ The detected system (kali kali-rolling) is not supported by MySQL. If you      │  
 │ believe the platform is compatible with one of the supported systems, one of   │  
 │ the corresponding repositories may be selected.                                │  
 │                                                                                │  
 │ Add repository to unsupported system?                                          │  
 │                                                                                │  
 │                                 ubuntu lunar                                   │  
 │                                ubuntu focal                                    │  
 │                                ubuntu jammy                                    │  
 │                                ubuntu noble                                    │  
 │                                ubuntu oracular                                 │  
 │                                ubuntu plucky                                   │  
 │                                debian bookworm                                 │  
 │                                abort                                           │  
 │                                                                                │  
 │                                                                                │  
 │                                     <Ok>

I selected debian bookworm and I am told to do:

sudo apt-get update

After doing the last step I get this error:

┌──(michael㉿kali)-[~/Downloads/Softwares/mysql_2_version]
└─$ sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-community
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mysql-workbench-community

mysql-workbench-community doesn’t support kali linux.

There’s another way through snap store.

Le’t’s run sudo snap install mysql-workbench-community
- Download snap “mysql-workbench-community” (13) from channel stable.
  - mysql-workbench-community 8.0.36 from Tonin Bolzan (tonybolzan) installed
    - Who’s Tonin Bolzan? –> GitHub - tonybolzan/snap-mysql-workbench: MySQL Workbench in snap
- now mysql-workbench-community is searchable in the dmenu
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Fred · June 3, 2025, 1:52pm

Docker containers are very lightweight, that was the point of them, so keep using that method!

Or learn to communicate with SQL via a command line, it doesn’t have to be too painful, Microsoft released an interactive open source tool for it;