Installation of JDeveloper is nowadays quite easy. Just unzip the file and off you go.
On Linux some additional steps are necessary:
- Have a decent JDK already installed. Using the latest JDK production release is a good bet (eg. JDK 1.5.0_08).
- Unzip the JDeveloper distribution in a globally accessible location (eg. /opt/oracle/jdeveloper)
- Adjust the permission settings for the shell scripts $JDEV_HOME/jdev/bin/jdev and $JDEV_HOME/jdev/bin/ojc by using chmod a+x <filename>
Now you can start JDeveloper by using the full path of the jdev shell script. You will be asked for the whole path of the Java executable but this quite easy because a file selection dialog helps to find it.
