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Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows Vista [message #331706] |
Wed, 17 September 2008 13:23  |
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Hi all,
I seem to have problems installing additional plug-ins into my Eclipse
Ganymede under Windows Vista.
Whenever I use the "Software Updates and Add-ons" dialogue, all plug-ins
thus installed are put into the plugins directory under
C:\Users\<Current User>\.eclipse rather than directly into the eclipse
folder (which I have put at C:\Programme\eclipse). So far so good. When
restarting Eclipse, it seems that these plug-ins are also loaded
accordingly, as functionality provided by them is actually available in
the IDE. However, it seems that they are managed quite differently from
the other plug-ins. In particular, they are not visible in the "Plug-in
Dependencies" and "Plug-ins" views. Also, none of the plug-ins I develop
can depend on any plug-in so installed or Eclipse will report that it
was unable to resolve the corresponding bundle.
Has anyone had the same experience before? What could I be doing wrong?
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Steffen
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows Vista [message #331709 is a reply to message #331706] |
Wed, 17 September 2008 14:11   |
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Hi again,
I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems that
P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info file
somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory. In my
situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
C:\Programme\eclipse\... and one under C:\Users\<Current User>\.eclipse.
These two files are substantially different. Could it be that
different parts of Eclipse actually use different of these files? How
could I prevent this?
Thanks again,
Steffen
--
Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler
Research Associate
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Computer Science
Phone +49 351 463 38555
Fax +49 351 463 38459
Email Steffen.Zschaler@tu-dresden.de
WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/
--
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1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering?
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Consider coming to QoSA 2008, the 4th International Conference on
the Quality of Software-Architectures.
http://qosa.ipd.uka.de/
Consider coming to MNPSC 2008, the IEEE International Workshop on
Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/mnpsc/
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331719 is a reply to message #331709] |
Thu, 18 September 2008 09:42   |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same problem,
but am on linux.
Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users. Installing
plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my home/.eclipse. Which is
correct. But as you, the bundles.info are different.
Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the bundles.info in
a startup script?
TiA!
Alexander
Steffen Zschaler wrote:
> Hi again,
> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems that
> P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info file
> somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory. In my
> situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current User>.eclipse.
> These two files are substantially different. Could it be that
> different parts of Eclipse actually use different of these files? How
> could I prevent this?
> Thanks again,
> Steffen
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331752 is a reply to message #331719] |
Fri, 19 September 2008 15:04   |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
I have not received any responses from this newsgroup (or any of the
other places I posted). But, based on a hint from a colleague and some
experimenting, I found out that it works for me if I put Eclipse in a
writeable place. In my case, I used C:\eclipse instead of (the more
logical [sic!]) C:\Program Files\eclipse. Now all plugins end up
directly in the eclipse folder and all is well.
I would consider this behaviour a bug in P2, or at least something that
definitely needs documentation. Where would I submit such a bug report?
Steffen
Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same
> problem, but am on linux.
>
> Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users. Installing
> plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my home/.eclipse. Which is
> correct. But as you, the bundles.info are different.
>
> Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the bundles.info
> in a startup script?
>
> TiA!
>
> Alexander
>
> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>
>> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems that
>> P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info file
>> somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory. In my
>> situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
>> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current User>.eclipse.
>> These two files are substantially different. Could it be that
>> different parts of Eclipse actually use different of these files? How
>> could I prevent this?
>
>> Thanks again,
>
>> Steffen
>
--
Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler
Research Associate
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Computer Science
Phone +49 351 463 38555
Fax +49 351 463 38459
Email Steffen.Zschaler@tu-dresden.de
WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/
--
Interested in Software Languages? Have you heard of the all-new
1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering?
Be sure to visit the web site: http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/
Consider coming to QoSA 2008, the 4th International Conference on
the Quality of Software-Architectures.
http://qosa.ipd.uka.de/
Consider coming to MNPSC 2008, the IEEE International Workshop on
Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/mnpsc/
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331789 is a reply to message #331752] |
Mon, 22 September 2008 15:39   |
Eclipse User |
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com
Bug reports go to http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs
Steffen Zschaler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have not received any responses from this newsgroup (or any of the
> other places I posted). But, based on a hint from a colleague and some
> experimenting, I found out that it works for me if I put Eclipse in a
> writeable place. In my case, I used C:\eclipse instead of (the more
> logical [sic!]) C:\Program Files\eclipse. Now all plugins end up
> directly in the eclipse folder and all is well.
>
> I would consider this behaviour a bug in P2, or at least something that
> definitely needs documentation. Where would I submit such a bug report?
>
> Steffen
>
> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same
>> problem, but am on linux.
>>
>> Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users.
>> Installing plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my
>> home/.eclipse. Which is correct. But as you, the bundles.info are
>> different.
>>
>> Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the
>> bundles.info in a startup script?
>>
>> TiA!
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>
>>> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems
>>> that P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info
>>> file somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory.
>>> In my situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
>>> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current User>.eclipse.
>>> These two files are substantially different. Could it be that
>>> different parts of Eclipse actually use different of these files? How
>>> could I prevent this?
>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>
>>> Steffen
>>
>
>
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331801 is a reply to message #331752] |
Tue, 23 September 2008 07:08   |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
When running on multi-users systems, that isn't a solution for user
plugins :).
As for the bundles.info being different, the one in the user home dir has
the extra bundles that are installed by the user, and as far as I can tell
the correct bundles.info is being used. So that seems to be ok.
Did you post a bug? If so, what is the nr/link? I found some issues about
not having a dropin location per user etc, but not one about this problem
where plugins seem to be present (the menu items are all there), but can't
be selected as plugin dependency.
Alexander
Steffen Zschaler wrote:
> Hi,
> I have not received any responses from this newsgroup (or any of the
> other places I posted). But, based on a hint from a colleague and some
> experimenting, I found out that it works for me if I put Eclipse in a
> writeable place. In my case, I used C:eclipse instead of (the more
> logical [sic!]) C:Program Fileseclipse. Now all plugins end up
> directly in the eclipse folder and all is well.
> I would consider this behaviour a bug in P2, or at least something that
> definitely needs documentation. Where would I submit such a bug report?
> Steffen
> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same
>> problem, but am on linux.
>>
>> Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users. Installing
>> plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my home/.eclipse. Which is
>> correct. But as you, the bundles.info are different.
>>
>> Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the bundles.info
>> in a startup script?
>>
>> TiA!
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>
>>> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems that
>>> P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info file
>>> somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory. In my
>>> situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
>>> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current User>.eclipse.
>>> These two files are substantially different. Could it be that
>>> different parts of Eclipse actually use different of these files? How
>>> could I prevent this?
>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>
>>> Steffen
>>
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331908 is a reply to message #331801] |
Sun, 28 September 2008 14:46   |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
I've been off-line for some time and haven't had time to submit the bug.
Was trying to do so earlier today, but am still waiting for my
confirmation mail for the bugzilla account...
Steffen
Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> When running on multi-users systems, that isn't a solution for user
> plugins :).
> As for the bundles.info being different, the one in the user home dir
> has the extra bundles that are installed by the user, and as far as I
> can tell the correct bundles.info is being used. So that seems to be ok.
>
> Did you post a bug? If so, what is the nr/link? I found some issues
> about not having a dropin location per user etc, but not one about this
> problem where plugins seem to be present (the menu items are all there),
> but can't be selected as plugin dependency.
>
> Alexander
>
> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>> I have not received any responses from this newsgroup (or any of the
>> other places I posted). But, based on a hint from a colleague and some
>> experimenting, I found out that it works for me if I put Eclipse in a
>> writeable place. In my case, I used C:eclipse instead of (the more
>> logical [sic!]) C:Program Fileseclipse. Now all plugins end up
>> directly in the eclipse folder and all is well.
>
>> I would consider this behaviour a bug in P2, or at least something
>> that definitely needs documentation. Where would I submit such a bug
>> report?
>
>> Steffen
>
>> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same
>>> problem, but am on linux.
>>>
>>> Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users.
>>> Installing plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my
>>> home/.eclipse. Which is correct. But as you, the bundles.info are
>>> different.
>>>
>>> Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the
>>> bundles.info in a startup script?
>>>
>>> TiA!
>>>
>>> Alexander
>>>
>>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>>> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems
>>>> that P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info
>>>> file somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory.
>>>> In my situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
>>>> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current User>.eclipse.
>>>> These two files are substantially different. Could it be that
>>>> different parts of Eclipse actually use different of these files?
>>>> How could I prevent this?
>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>>> Steffen
>>>
>
--
Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler
Research Associate
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Computer Science
Phone +49 351 463 38555
Fax +49 351 463 38459
Email Steffen.Zschaler@tu-dresden.de
WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/
--
Interested in Software Languages? Have you heard of the all-new
1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering?
Be sure to visit the web site: http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/
Consider coming to QoSA 2008, the 4th International Conference on
the Quality of Software-Architectures.
http://qosa.ipd.uka.de/
Consider coming to MNPSC 2008, the IEEE International Workshop on
Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/mnpsc/
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331912 is a reply to message #331908] |
Mon, 29 September 2008 07:19   |
Eclipse User |
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Just submitted the bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=248893
Steffen
Steffen Zschaler schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've been off-line for some time and haven't had time to submit the bug.
> Was trying to do so earlier today, but am still waiting for my
> confirmation mail for the bugzilla account...
>
> Steffen
>
> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When running on multi-users systems, that isn't a solution for user
>> plugins :).
>> As for the bundles.info being different, the one in the user home dir
>> has the extra bundles that are installed by the user, and as far as I
>> can tell the correct bundles.info is being used. So that seems to be ok.
>>
>> Did you post a bug? If so, what is the nr/link? I found some issues
>> about not having a dropin location per user etc, but not one about
>> this problem where plugins seem to be present (the menu items are all
>> there), but can't be selected as plugin dependency.
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> I have not received any responses from this newsgroup (or any of the
>>> other places I posted). But, based on a hint from a colleague and
>>> some experimenting, I found out that it works for me if I put Eclipse
>>> in a writeable place. In my case, I used C:eclipse instead of (the
>>> more logical [sic!]) C:Program Fileseclipse. Now all plugins end up
>>> directly in the eclipse folder and all is well.
>>
>>> I would consider this behaviour a bug in P2, or at least something
>>> that definitely needs documentation. Where would I submit such a bug
>>> report?
>>
>>> Steffen
>>
>>> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same
>>>> problem, but am on linux.
>>>>
>>>> Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users.
>>>> Installing plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my
>>>> home/.eclipse. Which is correct. But as you, the bundles.info are
>>>> different.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the
>>>> bundles.info in a startup script?
>>>>
>>>> TiA!
>>>>
>>>> Alexander
>>>>
>>>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>
>>>>> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems
>>>>> that P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info
>>>>> file somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory.
>>>>> In my situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
>>>>> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current
>>>>> User>.eclipse. These two files are substantially different. Could
>>>>> it be that different parts of Eclipse actually use different of
>>>>> these files? How could I prevent this?
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>
>>>>> Steffen
>>>>
>>
>
>
--
Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler
Research Associate
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Computer Science
Phone +49 351 463 38555
Fax +49 351 463 38459
Email Steffen.Zschaler@tu-dresden.de
WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/
--
Interested in Software Languages? Have you heard of the all-new
1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering?
Be sure to visit the web site: http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/
Consider coming to QoSA 2008, the 4th International Conference on
the Quality of Software-Architectures.
http://qosa.ipd.uka.de/
Consider coming to MNPSC 2008, the IEEE International Workshop on
Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/mnpsc/
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Re: Problem Installing plug-ins on Ganymede through P2 Update Manager on Windows [message #331918 is a reply to message #331912] |
Mon, 29 September 2008 13:17  |
Eclipse User |
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Thx,
I subscribed to it..
Steffen Zschaler wrote:
> Just submitted the bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=248893
> Steffen
> Steffen Zschaler schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been off-line for some time and haven't had time to submit the bug.
>> Was trying to do so earlier today, but am still waiting for my
>> confirmation mail for the bugzilla account...
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When running on multi-users systems, that isn't a solution for user
>>> plugins :).
>>> As for the bundles.info being different, the one in the user home dir
>>> has the extra bundles that are installed by the user, and as far as I
>>> can tell the correct bundles.info is being used. So that seems to be ok.
>>>
>>> Did you post a bug? If so, what is the nr/link? I found some issues
>>> about not having a dropin location per user etc, but not one about
>>> this problem where plugins seem to be present (the menu items are all
>>> there), but can't be selected as plugin dependency.
>>>
>>> Alexander
>>>
>>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I have not received any responses from this newsgroup (or any of the
>>>> other places I posted). But, based on a hint from a colleague and
>>>> some experimenting, I found out that it works for me if I put Eclipse
>>>> in a writeable place. In my case, I used C:eclipse instead of (the
>>>> more logical [sic!]) C:Program Fileseclipse. Now all plugins end up
>>>> directly in the eclipse folder and all is well.
>>>
>>>> I would consider this behaviour a bug in P2, or at least something
>>>> that definitely needs documentation. Where would I submit such a bug
>>>> report?
>>>
>>>> Steffen
>>>
>>>> Alexander Broekhuis schrieb:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you find a solution for this problem? I have exaclty the same
>>>>> problem, but am on linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eclipse is installed read-only and is used by multiple users.
>>>>> Installing plugins using p2 installs them somewhere in my
>>>>> home/.eclipse. Which is correct. But as you, the bundles.info are
>>>>> different.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible and safe to just change the location of the
>>>>> bundles.info in a startup script?
>>>>>
>>>>> TiA!
>>>>>
>>>>> Alexander
>>>>>
>>>>> Steffen Zschaler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>
>>>>>> I found some more info and did some more looking around. It seems
>>>>>> that P2 will store the list of installed bundles in a bundles.info
>>>>>> file somewhere in the configuration space of the eclipse directory.
>>>>>> In my situation, I now have two such bundles.info files, one under
>>>>>> C:Programmeeclipse... and one under C:Users<Current
>>>>>> User>.eclipse. These two files are substantially different. Could
>>>>>> it be that different parts of Eclipse actually use different of
>>>>>> these files? How could I prevent this?
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>
>>>>>> Steffen
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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