How to find installed Oracle SQL Developer?

Question

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.

Solution

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

Comments

[Chemist]

I did this as you say. And what do I do then? I now have a file on desktop called sqldeveloper.desktop, which doesn't do anything if I try to open it...

[Ron]

what does which sqldeveloper say? Use that path in Exec=/path/to/sqldeveloper/script. .

[Chemist]

I also forgot to add [Desktop Entry], apparently important. This works now, thank you very much for the help!