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Oracle SQL Developer Debian Package

  By Daniel | October 29, 2008 - 7:17 am | MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL, SQL Server Leave a comment

Oracle SQL Developer is a Java-based tool that provides a graphical interface to a database. While it’s main focus is Oracle (of course), it can be hooked up, via JDBC, to many other databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It’s similar to Toad, but is provided by Oracle at no cost.

Oracle provides SQL Developer in either an RPM, or a generic binary install. I like the ability to manage packages, but I’ve never had much luck at getting RPM to run on Ubuntu. I downloaded the RPM file, and, using alien, I converted the package to a .deb package (Debian package format) and installed it. It worked like a charm!

I haven’t tested it with gcj, but using Sun’s Java 6 update 7 from the Ubuntu repositories, it ran just fine. After you install the package, do a directory list on /usr/lib/jvm. You’re looking for the Sun JDK – if it’s installed, you’ll have a symlink java-6-sun that points to java-6-sun-1.6.0.07. Once you’ve determined the location of the JDK, run “sqldeveloper” from the command line – the program will prompt you for the path to your JDK. Enter it (probably “/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun”) and you’re good to go. (You have to install the package as root – but, for the rest of these steps, use your normal user, not root, as this puts settings in a .sqldeveloper directory off your home directory.) The package installs an icon in the “Programming” or “Development” group. Once you’ve told it where the JDK is, you can use this to launch it.

Download SQL Developer 1.5.1 Debian Package

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xine-lib 1.1.14 RPM

  By Daniel | June 29, 2008 - 7:20 pm | Xine RPMs Leave a comment

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.14. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)

You’ll also need a user interface – as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

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xine-lib 1.1.13 RPM

  By Daniel | June 24, 2008 - 7:06 pm | Xine RPMs Leave a comment

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.13. These were built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)

You’ll also need a user interface – as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

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xine-lib 1.1.10.1 RPM

  By Daniel | March 14, 2008 - 6:21 pm | Xine RPMs Leave a comment

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.10.1. These have been built the same way that 1.1.7 and 1.1.9.1 were – built on Ubuntu Linux, and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)

You’ll also need a user interface – as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

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xine-lib 1.1.9.1 RPM

  By Daniel | January 23, 2008 - 9:41 pm | Xine RPMs Leave a comment

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.9.1. These have been built the same way that the 1.1.7 RPMs were – built on Ubuntu Linux, and converted to RPM using alien. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)

You’ll also need a user interface – as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

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xine-ui 0.99.5 RPM

  By Daniel | August 21, 2007 - 9:15 pm | Xine RPMs Leave a comment

Below is the RPM for xine-ui version 0.99.5. This RPM has been built a little differently. First, it was built on Ubuntu Linux and converted to RPM using alien. Second, I could not quickly figure out how to get the files tagged for the 0.99.5 release, so this build includes changes committed after the official 0.99.5 release. I ran the UI through some paces, and no glaring errors jumped out. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-ui — The user interface

To use this, you’ll also need xine-lib – as of this release, the most recent release of xine-lib is 1.1.7.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

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xine-lib 1.1.7 RPM

  By Daniel | August 21, 2007 - 9:10 pm | Xine RPMs Leave a comment

Below are the library and development RPMs for xine-lib version 1.1.7. These have been built a little differently. First, these have been built on Ubuntu Linux, and converted to RPM using alien. Second, I could not quickly figure out how to get only the files tagged for the 1.1.7 release, so this is actually the in-work 1.1.8 release. I ran these builds through some paces, and nothing glaring came out. Be sure to check out the About the Xine RPMs post for more information.

xine-lib — The main xine library
xine-lib-dev — The development xine library (needed if you’re building an interface against xine-lib)

You’ll also need a user interface – as of this release, the most current release of xine-ui is 0.99.5.

(To save disk space, only the current release and two prior releases will be maintained.)

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