When I query a table in MySQL Workbench, no results are shown, the result section is just blank, no grid or anything. However if I export the data, it is all there. Everything w
If you do not want to compile it yourself you can go to:
Applications→Ubuntu Software Center→Edit→Software Sources→Updates
there you can check hardy-proposed is ticked(for 14.10 will be utopic-proposed)
Source
then simply go to terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench
As a note, you will get other updates to, witch may not be stable!!!