Comments on: Eclipse problems in Ubuntu

By: SultansOfSwing

SultansOfSwing — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:17:45 +0000

Eclipse – a great piece of software. But only as long as you use only its builtin plugin management. As soon as it interferes with the system it’s running on (think about JavaHL and subclipse, or the abovementioned SWT libs, or think about the attempts on launchpad) you’re completely lost if your system’s package management decides to update something without Eclipse knowing it, or updating Eclipse without caring for plugins. Not to mention the current Ubuntu dist upgrade that happily deinstalls or clobbers some of the applications you had running for years — this time (Ub. 9.10 -> 10.04) Eclipse lost all of the plugins I had installed.

Probably the best thing to install completely in user space, so the crappy Package Management can’t destroy it again. I’ll follow Michael’s way.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:46:20 +0000

Found a possible alternative solution. I’m running eclipse 3.6 RC3 (downloaded from eclipse and installed in my user space, along with an rcp target that contains the delta pack) on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. My exported rcp application would shut down immediately after starting, with a log that started with an “activator org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench is invalid” error. I read a post somewhere that someone fixed this with launcher configurations; he said he had changed some of the settings and caused the problem, but when they were changed back to “default” all was good. In my .product file, I removed program and vm arguments. I then deleted my product run configuration. Then I clicked “Launch an Eclipse Application” in the .product overview tab. It ran. I exported it and the rcp application now works.

By: linksys router

linksys router — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:33:17 +0000

I have a lot of problem when i install in ubuntu

By: nachikethas

nachikethas — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:40:54 +0000

I don’t know why–Eclipse 3.5.1 is the most difficult to install in Ubuntu!

The READEME file should list all the steps required to install eclipse from scratch.

When it works, it is a beautiful piece of software.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:05:58 +0000

Hilarious…. “After that you can continue with your favorite hobby of re-installing all of the eclipse plugins.”.

Thanks for the good tidbits.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:50:55 +0000

Funny thing is that I used eclipse today, with no problems and updated nothing. I swear, this eclipse is the most buggy piece of software I use. It breaks for absolutely no reason most times, with a complete reinstall being the only option. Backing up your profile? Pointless, it’s just going to be part of what’s broken and it’s completely unfeasible to go through and try to figure out what’s wrong.

On top of that, Java provides such overly verbose error messaging that googling for what’s going wrong is nearly impossible. I think between the fact that Ubuntu has become incredibly buggy with the recent hardy release, and these problems I’m continually plagued with using eclipse; I honestly think the time for me to stop using this combination has come.

Either I’m missing something drastically here, or eclipse is the most difficult to keep running smoothly of any software I’ve used. I don’t know how downloading the packages directly from their site and installing can always be so completely broken beyond belief.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely dig eclipse, but these constant problems continually pop up and render those features completely unusable. Can someone please, please, please figure it out somewhere? I’ll buy you beer. Or Something.

By: Kristoffer Grønnegaard

Kristoffer Grønnegaard — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:08:17 +0000

Tried it, didnt work. Ive been working with eclipse on Xp for more than a year, where most features worked enough for me to continue using it. To me its unbearably hard to get to work on Ubuntu. And despite purgin and checking for eclipse dirs later on, excess features such as the visual builder still \\

By: Tiago Eduardo

Tiago Eduardo — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:20:48 +0000

Thank you !!!!! And I completely agree – “when you’ve got eclipse working DO NOT TOUCH”.

By: Federico

Federico — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:41:41 +0000

Thank you very much for the tip, I had a bad day trying to reinstall Eclipse on Ubuntu Gutsy, reinstalling the 2 packages above helped in solving the issue.
Thank you again

By: Alex Volkov

Alex Volkov — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:11:50 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been pulling my hair on this, your advice seems to work on debian etch / sid as well.