Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu 10

Installing SQL Developer on any platform is piece of cake. Just download the zip from Oracle’s site. Just unzip it and you’re ready to go. What’s cool about this install is it will integrate SQL Developer to the Gnome’s applications menu.

Installing with .deb package builder.

Instructions are in this link. They work just fine for Ubuntu Lucid till you need to use the dos2unix command.

Instead of downloading you could get the debian package builder from synaptic.

Linking todos to dos2unix.

The clue for this small issue is in this post. When you get a complaint regarding to dos2unix file not found, you should link todos to dos2unix.

sudo ln /usr/bin/todos /usr/bin/dos2unix

That’s it. You can go back to the install instructions.