You will see Oracle SQL Developer starting.

Run the sqldeveloper.sh file, you will be prompted to enter the Oracle JDK location, just paste it in and press enter.sqldeveloper.sh or sh sqldeveloper.sh in the current directory.

You can see that sqldeveloper.sh has executable permission so that we can run it by doing.

Locate your Oracle JDK installation under /usr/lib/jvm, we'll need this location to tell Oracle SQL Developer where our Oracle JDK is located.

By default the unzip program will extract the zip file into the current directory, since we are in /opt now, we don't need to specify target directory. zip, in my case it's sudo unzip ~/Downloads/sqldeveloper-20.2.0.

Unzip Oracle SQL Developer with command sudo unzip.

This is where i will store the sqldeveloper application, you can choose other directory, but this my preference (and i read also that /opt is for 3rd party apps that we cannot install via apt package manager)

Open your terminal, go to /opt directory.

Verify your installation by listing the directory of /usr/lib/jvm.

Install Oracle JDK 11 by using command sudo dpkg -i, in my case it's sudo dpkg -i jdk-11.0.8_linux-圆4_bin.deb.

Open your terminal, go to directory where your prerequisite files are located (in my case it's in ~/Downloads).

Install Oracle JDK 11 and Oracle SQL Developer

Download Oracle SQL Developer for Other Platforms (at the time of this post, the version is 20.2).

Go to download Oracle SQL Developer page.

Download Oracle JDK 11 for Debian package (at the time of this post, the version is 11.0.8), you will be prompted to sign in using oracle account to download.

deb installation file which can be easily installed using dpkg

I will use Oracle JDK 11 because it has a.

This is a fairly straightforward guide to install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu 20.04

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