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This post makes the assumption that you’ve installed the current version of Java and the Java SDK. If you haven’t, you can find instructions on my blog. You will also need to have an installation of the Oracle database running on your server or a remote service, or cloud micro service.

The remainder of this post deals with downloading, installing, and configuring Oracle’s SQL Developer for AlmaLinux 9, which is the GNU version of Red Hat Enterprise 9.

  1. Go to Oracle’s download site and download the sqldeveloper RPM file. You will need to provide your Oracle credentials to download SQL Developer. It will download to your sudoer account’s Download directory. In this example the sudoer user is the student user.

    You should see the following web page and click on the Download link, provided you’re installing on Linux it’ll look like the next image.

    Then, you need to accept the license and click the Download button. Oracle will prompt you for your credentials if you’re not logged in on the web page already.

  2. Next, you need to navigate to the Downloads directory and install the sqldeveloper RPM. Assuming your sudoer user is student, you can get to the Downloads directory with the following command. 

    cd ~student/Downloads

    Assuming, you downloaded the SQL Developer package, you can use the following command to install any downloaded version of sqldeveloper package.

    sudo rpm -Uvh `ls sqldeveloper*.rpm`

    The log file for this is:

    Display detailed console log →

    warning: RPM v3 packages are deprecated: sqldeveloper-22.2.1-234.1810.noarch
Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Regex version mismatch, expected: 10.40 2022-04-14 actual: 10.37 2021-05-26
Regex version mismatch, expected: 10.40 2022-04-14 actual: 10.37 2021-05-26
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
warning: RPM v3 packages are deprecated: sqldeveloper-22.2.1-234.1810.noarch
Updating / installing...
   1:sqldeveloper-22.2.1-234.1810     ################################# [100%]
  3. Click on Activities link in the upper left corner and then the clustered nine dots to view applications. Choose the SQL Developer icon and double click and you should see the following dialog if you’re a first time user. Unless you’re upgrading, click the No button to proceed.

  4. The first official screen after checking whether you need to transfer existing settings wants to know whether or allow or disallow user tracking. Click the OK button if you don’t mind Oracle tracking your use, or click the Allow automated usage reporting to Oracle checkbox to disallow Oracle tracking your use before you click the OK button.

  5. The next screen lets you set up a TNS names file or use an existing file. I clicked on the XE existing database to continue.

    This is a password prompt for the TNS name resolution of XE, which should point to the Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. (I’d use a more current version but I couldn’t resist using the smaller footprint of the pre-containerized Oracle databases.)

    Replace XE with the name of a sandboxed user, like student, and the password for the student user before you click the OK button. (If you don’t know what a sandboxed user is, you should. It’s a user with limited access to a database of the same name in the context of an Oracle database. A non-sandboxed user has global privileges like the system user.)

  6. The next screen lets you enter SQL statements agains the student database. You can click the X button in the top right corner to close the application.

You’ve now installed SQL Developer. However, sometimes I want to start SQL Developer from the command-line interface (CLI) but you’ll get a bunch of warnings and unnecessary Java non-critical errors. So, I create an alias to avoid the extraneous noise. I create the sqldeveloper alias in the .bashrc file for it. You can create a sqldeveloper alias by adding the following line to your .bashrc file:

The unnecessary noise when you don’t create a sqldeveloper alias.

Display detailed console log →

Oracle SQL Developer
Copyright (c) 2005, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Options -Xverify:none and -noverify were deprecated in JDK 13 and will likely be removed in a future release.
WARNING: A terminally deprecated method in java.lang.System has been called
WARNING: System::setSecurityManager has been called by org.netbeans.TopSecurityManager (file:/opt/sqldeveloper/netbeans/platform/lib/boot.jar)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.netbeans.TopSecurityManager
WARNING: System::setSecurityManager will be removed in a future release
WARNING: A terminally deprecated method in java.lang.System has been called
WARNING: System::setSecurityManager has been called by oracle.ide.IdeCore (file:/opt/sqldeveloper/ide/extensions/oracle.ide.jar)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of oracle.ide.IdeCore
WARNING: System::setSecurityManager will be removed in a future release
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: class oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel cannot access class com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel (in module java.desktop) because module java.desktop does not export com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk to unnamed module @49c746f
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.Reflection.newIllegalAccessException(Reflection.java:392)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkAccess(AccessibleObject.java:674)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:489)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.ReflectAccess.newInstance(ReflectAccess.java:128)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.ReflectionFactory.newInstance(ReflectionFactory.java:347)
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:645)
	at oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel._initLafCombo(EnvironOptionsPanel.java:540)
	at oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel.initComponents(EnvironOptionsPanel.java:238)
	at oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel.<init>(EnvironOptionsPanel.java:99)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:77)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:499)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:480)
	at javax.ide.util.MetaClass.newInstance(MetaClass.java:145)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.standalone.IndexedPreferencesCommand$IndexPreferencesTask.doWork(IndexedPreferencesCommand.java:122)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.standalone.IndexedPreferencesCommand$IndexPreferencesTask.doWork(IndexedPreferencesCommand.java:65)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.backgroundTask.RaptorTask.call(RaptorTask.java:199)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.backgroundTask.RaptorTaskManager$RaptorFutureTask.run(RaptorTaskManager.java:702)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: class oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel cannot access class com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel (in module java.desktop) because module java.desktop does not export com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk to unnamed module @49c746f
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.Reflection.newIllegalAccessException(Reflection.java:392)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkAccess(AccessibleObject.java:674)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:489)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.ReflectAccess.newInstance(ReflectAccess.java:128)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.ReflectionFactory.newInstance(ReflectionFactory.java:347)
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:645)
	at oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel._initLafCombo(EnvironOptionsPanel.java:540)
	at oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel.initComponents(EnvironOptionsPanel.java:238)
	at oracle.ideimpl.config.EnvironOptionsPanel.<init>(EnvironOptionsPanel.java:99)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.config.EnvironOptionsPanelWrapper.<init>(EnvironOptionsPanelWrapper.java:30)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:77)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:499)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:480)
	at javax.ide.util.MetaClass.newInstance(MetaClass.java:145)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.standalone.IndexedPreferencesCommand$IndexPreferencesTask.doWork(IndexedPreferencesCommand.java:122)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.standalone.IndexedPreferencesCommand$IndexPreferencesTask.doWork(IndexedPreferencesCommand.java:65)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.backgroundTask.RaptorTask.call(RaptorTask.java:199)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at oracle.dbtools.raptor.backgroundTask.RaptorTaskManager$RaptorFutureTask.run(RaptorTaskManager.java:702)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)

You create the alias like this:

alias  sqldeveloper="sqldeveloper 2>/dev/null &"

That completes the instructions. Good luck with SQL Developer. It’s a great tool.

Written by maclochlainn

December 21st, 2022 at 2:12 pm

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