Install SQL Developer on CentOS 5

1. Configure $JAVA_HOME if there is nothing outputs when you run

echo $JAVA_HOME

Mine is at /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/ so I put the following line into ~/.bashrc file:

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/"

2. Download SQL Developer installation from Oracle SQL Developer RPM for Linux and install.

sudo rpm -ihv sqldeveloper-3.2.20.09.87-1.noarch.rpm

3. add /opt/sqldeveloper to your PATH

PATH=$PATH:/opt/sqldeveloper/

4. Run SQL Developer:

source ~/.bashrc
sqldeveloper