[arch-general] dbeaver and mariadb-jdbc: Creating the symlink.

[Stanislav N. aka pztrn]

On Sunday, 21 April 2019 22:43:17 +05 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed dbeaver 6.0.1-1, plus mariadb-jdbc 2.4.1-1 from AUR.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JDBC_and_MySQL#Installing_JDBC says
> to then symlink mariadb-java-client.jar so it's picked up as part of the
> JVM's JRE, but /usr/lib/jvm/default-runtime/jre/lib/ext doesn't exist.
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=241666 looks like a similar
> problem and although it's marked solved, it isn't really as the AUR
> package was ditched in favour of Maven.
> 
> What's the right Java solution to combine these two things?  I don't
> mind running dbeaver with an environment variable or two so the JVM
> spots /usr/share/java/mariadb-jdbc/mariadb-java-client.jar.

DBeaver is able to download adapter on first connection creation. No need to 
symlink anything.

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