SQL Developer on Fedora 23

You use yum as the root user to install Java SDK 1.8, much like my earlier Installing the Java SDK 1.7 and Java-MySQL Sample Program. The following command installs Java 8:


#dnf install java

Then, you go to Oracle’s SQL Developer 4.0.3 web page or Oracle’s Beta SQL Developer 4.1 web page and download the SQL Developer RPM. At the time of writing, you download the following SQL Developer 4.0.3 RPM:

sqldeveloper-4.0.3.16.84-1.noarch.rpm

Assuming you download the sqldeveloper-4.0.3.16.84-1.noarch.rpm file to the student user’s account. It will download into the /home/student/Downloads directory. You run the SQL Developer RPM file with the following syntax as the root user:

rpm -Uhv /home/student/Downloads/sqldeveloper-4.0.3.16.84-1.noarch.rpm

Running the SQL Developer RPM produces the following output:

Preparing... ################################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:sqldeveloper-4.0.3.16.84-1 ################################# [100%]

 edit  the file /opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin/sqldeveloper.conf with this corrections:

SetJavaHome /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.45-35.b13.fc21.x86_64
SetSkipJ2SDKCheck true




You can now run the sqldeveloper.sh file as the root user with the following syntax:

/opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper.sh