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Problem installing eclipse [message #1830688]

Fri, 31 July 2020 10:43

Toni Kühnl

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Registered: July 2020

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Every time I try to istal eclipse I get the following error:

ERROR: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifact.repository code=1003 Unable to write to repository: file:/C:/Users/tonid/.p2/pool.
java.io.IOException: Failed to create directory C:\Users\tonid\.p2\pool\plugins.

The problem I see is that my user folder is not named "tonid" it is named" toni" I changed that a while back because it was bothering me.

I reinstalled the jdk multiple times als well as deleted the eclipse installer.

How do get the java.io.IOException to created a directory at "C:\Users\toni\.p2\pool\plugins." because I think that would fix the problem?

If anyone could help me with that it would be very kind.

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Re: Problem installing eclipse [message #1830693 is a reply to message #1830688]

Fri, 31 July 2020 15:09

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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If you open a cmd command prompt and run "set" are any of the environment variables pointing at C:\Users\tonid rather than C:\Users\toni? I think HOMEPATH/HOMEDRIVE is the most important one because I think that's used to determine the value of the user.home system property.

Ed Merks
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Re: Problem installing eclipse [message #1830694 is a reply to message #1830693]

Fri, 31 July 2020 15:19

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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Also, if you've previous installed Eclipse before renaming the folder/account name, there are likely things in <home>/.eclipse/... and <home>/.p2/... that have references to the older value of <home>. That will cause problems as well. Easiest would be two delete these two folders if that's the case.

Don't bother trying to reinstall the JDK, that should not be a problem...

Ed Merks
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