I have a strange problem I never had before.

I have Oracle SQL Developer installed. If I run the install .deb file, it shows in my Software Center that it is installed. And this is true because I can run it from the terminal with command sqldeveloper .

However, it's not showing up in my software list and I can't search for it like I can for other programs. How can I put it on the list of installed programs? I don't understand why it's not there already...

Any help would be appreciated. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.

1 Answer

You can use:

which sqldeveloper

to see where the executable script is installed.

To make it easier to use, you can create a desktop icon. So create a file sqldeveloper.desktop anywhere you wish:

cd /path/to/your/desktop/ nano sqldeveloper.desktop

and populate it with:

[Desktop Entry] Exec=/path/to/sqldeveloper/script Terminal=false StartupNotify=true Categories=GNOME;Oracle; Type=Application Icon=path/so/some/image Name=Oracle SQL Developer

and update:

sudo update-desktop-database

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