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Error while following instructions to install SQL Developer on Ubuntu 11.10

Dwilson-OracleNov 29 2011 — edited Nov 30 2011
Hi-

I've successfully installed Oracle 11gR2 XE on Ubuntu 11.10 and am now following the post on installing SQL Developer (2304774

I'm on the last step, which instructs to run the following statement
"sudo update-desktop-database"

which, when I do, I receive the following error message:

Error in file "/usr/share/applications/oraclexe-startdb.desktop": "Application/database" is an invalid MIME type ("Application" is an unregistered media type)

Any thoughts on what to do to correct this?

Many thanks to Dude for the instructions on installing both the database and SQL Developer on Ubuntu 11.10!!

Thanks
Darin

Comments

Dude!
The following should correct the issue:

Edit /usr/share/applications/oraclexe-startdb.desktop

change: MimeType=Application/database
to: MimeType=application/database

It seems some of the recent Ubuntu updates have introduced a case issue resulting in the described error. There might even be more problems with these old .desktop files in the future. But for now this should fix the problem. Anyway, this applies to the 11gR2 Express Edition, not SQL Developer.

What 11gR2 XE installation instructions did you follow?

Kind regards.
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Dwilson-Oracle
Thanks Dude. That resolved the issue.

I installed 11gR2 XE db from your post on this for Ubuntu 11.10.

Thanks for sharing your great knowledge.

Darin
Dude!
I have updated the instructions with a couple of improvements and also fixed a silly typo missing a 0 and hence would create a small 2 GB instead of a 20 GB partition for the Oracle XE installation.

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