Installing rpm package in Ubuntu 6.06

[Markus Schönhaber]

Aron Lopes Petrucci wrote:
> But, now, I'm trying to install MySQL GUI Query Browser, MySQL GUI
> Admin, and Free Pascal "Lazarus". - I have a lot of hours in Delphi.
>
> The problem: I have downloaded Lazarus and MySQL GUIs rpm packages
> in /home/Software/Lazarus and /home/Software/MysqlGUI, then I use
> synaptic menu: Files->add dowloaded packages (sorry, but my synaptic
> menu is in portuguese, I don't know the exact command in English) and
> browse to the location above. Then... the rpm packages are disable.

What's wrong whith the "mysql-client" and "mysql-query-browser" packages which 
are already in the Ubuntu repository? Why not use those?

Regards
  mks