Eclipse Community Forums: Newcomers » Linux + Eclipse users, read this!

Help

Home

Home » Newcomers » Newcomers » Linux + Eclipse users, read this!(Avoid many problems when running Eclipse on Linux)

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Linux + Eclipse users, read this! [message #509484]

Fri, 22 January 2010 10:07

Eric Rizzo
Messages: 2011
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Linux distributions may provide packaged Eclipse. Those packages may be tailored to certain needs and therefore may differ in shape and behaviour from the original Eclipse provided by the Eclipse Foundation; therefore all issues with those packages should be routed via appropriate Linux bug trackers.
If you want to be certain to get the original, "official" Eclipse experience, download directly from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads

Also, many older Linux distributions include gcj as the default JVM, and even installing Oracle's JDK/JRE does not always make it the default. Eclipse is known to have problems when running under gcj, so it is strongly recommended that you specify the Oracle JDK for Eclipse. Simple instructions can be found at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

FAQ:
Which Eclipse do I have?
If you have downloaded and installed from eclipse.org, you have the Eclipse Foundation
one. If you have downloaded and installed via rpm or deb package, or if it came pre-packaged in your linux distro, you have a customized linux version.

[Updated on: Thu, 23 August 2012 14:19]

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	Problems with C/C++ in Eclipse? Read this.
Next Topic:	New forum members, READ THIS FIRST.

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Tue May 28 04:18:31 EDT 2013