Work around platform support issues with Teradata GUI tools for Ubuntu
I noticed Teradata Studio 16.20 now only ships as an rpm . This is was a little worrisome for me as a Debian based user on Ubuntu who normally requires .deb files. Fortunately it’s an Eclipse based java application that can run stand-alone, so all that is required is to ensure a java JRE of 8+ exists and we are good.
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
Then the application needs to be unpacked with some special RPM decompression tools,
sudo apt install rpm2cpio cpio
rpm2cpio TeradataStudio64-16.20.09.00-1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
then the uncompressed files can be placed in the normal location (as root) and started normally
sudo mv ./opt/teradata /opt/
/opt/teradata/TeradataStudio/TeradataStudio &
This worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04. Not tested for later versions as I’ve migrated to Fedora of late.