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Asked: 2014-12-30 10:53:04 +0800 CST

SQL Developer runs in Terminal with sudo sqldeveloper but not without sudo

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Can anyone help? Installed like here:

How to install SQL Developer on Ubuntu 14.04?

If I run: 

sudo sqldeveloper

it starts and runs properly but if I run:

sqldeveloper

It wont start with any other error shown.

Are there missing rights for Sqldeveloper or Java. Where and how do I set them.

Any help appreciated, I am a Ubuntu noob.

Where do I find error logs?

Thank you...

sqldeveloper

2 Answers

  1. Likely what happened is you ran sqldeveloper one time using sudo, which caused the configuration directory $HOME/.sqldeveloper to get owned by root. If so, you should be able to fix it by re-taking ownership of the directory, i.e.

    sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.sqldeveloper

    or by simply deleting the directory

    rm -rf ~/.sqldeveloper
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  2. If we need to run sqldeveloper without sudo we need to run command in terminal

    sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.sqldeveloper
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