Oracle SQL Developer (4.1.1) Mac OSX install issues (El Capitan)

Question

I am attempting to install Oracle SQL Developer Version 4.1.1. onto my MacBook Pro after installing OS X El Capitan. After I download the application and attempt to click on the icon to install it, the application's loading prompt appears and the "loading" bar moves about 5% to the part where it says "registering extensions" right above the loading bar. The application then crashes (no crash report, or anything appears afterwards).

After searching online I cannot find anyone else having this issue.

On a possibly related note - I attempted to install Oracle SQL Developer 4.1.1 on my Parallels Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine and had the same issue. Not sure if this stems from the same reason that my OS X install fails.

Help? suggestions? Im running out of ideas.

Answer 1

Run in terminal:

/Applications/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/MacOS/sqldeveloper.sh

to view errors.

My error was

mkdir: /Users/gs/.sqldeveloper/4.1.0: Permission denied"

Solution:

sudo mv ~/.sqldeveloper ~/sqldeveloper.old