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jmerook
jmerook

Reputation: 63

Oracle SQL Developer (4.1.1) Mac OSX install issues (El Capitan)

I am attempting to install Oracle SQL Developer Version 4.1.1. onto my MacBook Pro after installing OS X El Capitan. After I download the application and attempt to click on the icon to install it, the application's loading prompt appears and the "loading" bar moves about 5% to the part where it says "registering extensions" right above the loading bar. The application then crashes (no crash report, or anything appears afterwards).

After searching online I cannot find anyone else having this issue.

On a possibly related note - I attempted to install Oracle SQL Developer 4.1.1 on my Parallels Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine and had the same issue. Not sure if this stems from the same reason that my OS X install fails.

Help? suggestions? Im running out of ideas.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9316

Answers (4)

godj05
godj05

Reputation: 76

Run in terminal:

/Applications/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/MacOS/sqldeveloper.sh

to view errors.

My error was 

mkdir: /Users/gs/.sqldeveloper/4.1.0: Permission denied"

Solution:

sudo mv ~/.sqldeveloper ~/sqldeveloper.old

Upvotes: 6

greencrest
greencrest

Reputation: 169

In my case it was an issue related to attached external monitor. I had moved my primary display to an external monitor and then disconnecting external displays allows me to start the app. Plugging the external display in and the application moves to the primary external monitor.

Got info after googling and read that posts from oracle community

Upvotes: 0

gprx100
gprx100

Reputation: 360

I had a similar problem, I had to download the JDK for the install to work. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Upvotes: 1

Jani Nurmi
Jani Nurmi

Reputation: 31

Open the contents of your /Applications/SQLDeveloper.app

Edit /Contents/MacOS/sqldeveloper.sh

Add export JAVA_HOME pointing to your latest Java 1.8 version.

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

This helped me.

Full sqldeveloper.sh file for SQL Developer 4.1.1.

#!/bin/bash 
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home
here="${0%/*}"
cd "${here}"
cd ../Resources/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin
bash ./sqldeveloper >>/dev/null

Upvotes: 3

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