Error while installing DBeaver On Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I am trying to install Dbeaver 3.5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04, but it shows some Java run-time missing error even though I've Java7 installed on my system.

Here's how I tried to install

1. user@Demo:~/Downloads$ wget http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/files/3.5.6/dbeaver-ce_3.5.6_i386.deb

2. user@Demo:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i dbeaver-ce_3.5.6_i386.deb

and it throws an error like this

(Reading database ... 170900 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack dbeaver-ce_3.5.6_i386.deb ...
Unpacking dbeaver-ce (3.5.6) over (3.5.6) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dbeaver-ce:
 dbeaver-ce depends on openjdk-7-jre-headless | openjdk-8-jre-headless | java-runtime-headless; however:
  Package openjdk-7-jre-headless is not installed.
  Package openjdk-8-jre-headless is not installed.
  Package java-runtime-headless is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package dbeaver-ce (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dbeaver-ce

I am sure that the java installed on my system.

user@Demo:~/Downloads$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_79"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_79-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode)

I think DBeaver need openjdk instead of normal oracle_jdk, isn't ?

How can I fix this problem ?

1. Should I install openjdk too ?
2. Can openjdk and normal oracle jdk work simultaneously in one system ?
3. Is there any alternative tool for DBeaver in Ubuntu. (I mean, which is the best one? ) ?

PS: am new in Ubuntu.

Solution 1

I had this issue and this is what worked for me:

sudo apt-get -f install

This installs dependencies and then finishes DBeaver.

Full script:

wget http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/files/dbeaver-ce_latest_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i dbeaver-ce_latest_amd64.deb
rm dbeaver-ce_latest_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

Solution 2

I use DBeaver on Ubuntu 14.04 as well. I never tried to install it as a deb package though--any particular reason you need to do that?

What I did was download the Linux zip archive from here:

http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/download/

Then you can just extract the contents to a folder, and run the dbeaver executable that's inside. It should "just work" with whatever your default JDK is, whether it's OpenJDK or Oracle. You can then create a shortcut/dock icon/whatever to that executable manually.

Hope that helps!