DBDesigner is a nice database design tool. In ubuntu I installed DBDesigner in this way.
1. First of all you need to download the DBDesigner package. There is no debian package. So download the .rpm package.http://fabforce.net/downloads.php
2. After downloading this file you will need alien to convert it to .deb, so just type in your terminal
sudo apt-get install alien
3. Now, go to the location of your hard drive where you downloaded the rpm package and install it using:
sudo alien -i DBDesigner4-0.5.4-0.i586.rpm
4. Now install the shared library libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so,
First Download the library package and extract it using:
tar xzvf kylixlibs3-borqt-3.0-2.tar.gz
5. After extracting it do the following:
sudo cp kylixlibs3-borqt/libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so
/lib/libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so
finally the executable DBDesigner4 can be found at /opt/DBDesigner
Cheers 
July 3, 2008 at 4:08 am
nice idea.. gotta give a try..
thanks.. jazzakallah
August 21, 2008 at 12:08 pm
i am also using this tool…. but on window…
Its really good for DBA and programmers who design databases….
September 9, 2008 at 2:39 am
there is one issue when intalling kylixlibs3-borqt-3.0-2.
When I did step 5, i got this message.
cp: missing destination file operand after `kylixlibs3-borqt/libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so’
I am using ubuntu 8.04. Any suggestion, please ?
Try `cp –help’ for more information.
September 9, 2008 at 4:31 am
Yes, I also faced the same problem. kylixlibs3-borqt/libborqt-6.9.0-qt2.3.so. The solution seems to me that, I most probably search this file in Synaptic manager and installed the library file.
September 16, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Thanks for your HowTo. It works fine.
Greetings from Switzerland
September 26, 2008 at 4:26 am
anyone got it running on ubuntu 8.04 ?
September 3, 2009 at 6:00 am
After days of struggling with other blog suggestions, THIS IS THE ONE THAT WORKS!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
September 30, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Any recommendations on getting it running under AMD64 mode? I get the following message when trying to convert the RPM with Alien:
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture ‘amd64′ does not appear in package’s architecture list (i386)
Thanks for any help you can provide.
October 19, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I’m copy pasting this, says exactly what I am thinking
“After days of struggling with other blog suggestions, THIS IS THE ONE THAT WORKS!!! THANK YOU!!!!!”
Actually, I’m going to add one more “!” to that THANK YOU.