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64-bit Linux [message #892652]

Fri, 29 June 2012 01:58

Flavelle Ballem

Messages: 41
Registered: July 2009

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I am currently running 64-bit ubuntu and 64-bit Oracle Java 7. The current version of EPF (1.5.4?) seems to require 32-bit.

I am hoping that there will be a version that will allow for use in my environment. Many Linux users have migrated to 64-bit environments and frankly, I would prefer to stay there.

Another alternative might be to install EPF as plugins into my existing Eclipse environment (Indigo 64-bit Linux), but I'm not sure that's possible.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated - I would like to get to know this program, since it looks like it will fill a need.

Many thanks,

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Re: 64-bit Linux [message #927430 is a reply to message #892652]

Sat, 29 September 2012 16:58

John Miller

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Registered: August 2012

Junior Member

I have the same issue! I am wondering if I need to remove the 64 bit Java?

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Re: 64-bit Linux [message #997349 is a reply to message #927430]

Sun, 06 January 2013 18:49

Michael Jastram

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

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Same here. I looked into building my own, but, frankly, it seemed like a lot of work with an uncertain outcome (in particular the dependencies to the native html rendering engine make me worry that I get the thing to compile, but the editors being unusable).

Is the EPF build even automated? I have not seen it at https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/

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*Bump* [message #1068185 is a reply to message #997349]

Fri, 12 July 2013 14:48

Michael Jastram

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

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Just wondering - as time passes, and almost all machines have >3GB, I see fewer and fewer 32bit Linux machines. A 64bit built would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: *Bump* [message #1068582 is a reply to message #1068185]

Sat, 13 July 2013 19:39

Flavelle Ballem

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I couldn't agree with Michael more - a 64-bit version for Linux is very important going forward.

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Re: *Bump* [message #1068583 is a reply to message #1068185]

Sat, 13 July 2013 19:40

Flavelle Ballem

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Registered: July 2009

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I couldn't agree with Michael more - a 64-bit version for Linux is very important going forward.

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Re: *Bump* [message #1402991 is a reply to message #1068583]

Sat, 19 July 2014 14:01

Flavelle Ballem

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Registered: July 2009

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So we're now another year down the road and Linux continues to move on. Firefox has 64-bit version for Linux - but not for Windows. Ubuntu is now at 14.04. As far as I know, LibreOffice is 64-bit. I think there is a recently released version of RedHat Linux that is 64-bit. We are still waiting for someone to let us know when we will be able to run EPF on 64-bit Linux. I won't install 32-bit Linux just to run EPF. Even Windows applications are slowly migrating to 64-bit. So when do we think there will be a 64-bit version of EPF?

Thanks,

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Re: *Bump* [message #1657270 is a reply to message #1402991]

Sat, 07 March 2015 22:35

Flavelle Ballem

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Registered: October 2014

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We are now an ADDITIONAL 4 -1/2 years down the road. Is there any prospect that there will be a 64-bit version of EPF to run on 64-bit Java?

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Re: *Bump* [message #1693276 is a reply to message #1657270]

Wed, 22 April 2015 19:50

Bruce MacIsaac

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Unless someone steps up to do this, it won't happen any time soon. However, I have gotten Rational Method Composer working on 64 bit SUSE, so I assume EPF Composer will also work on the same platform. I then tried various workarounds to get it working on Ubuntu 64 - but was not successful. I imagine that someone with more technical know-how than I could compare the SUSE and Ubuntu environments and figure out how to get this working on Ubuntu 64.
Volunteers anyone?

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Re: 64-bit Linux: Got it to work with CrossOver [message #1719096 is a reply to message #892652]

Tue, 05 January 2016 08:43

Michael Jastram

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

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Hi all,

I got it to work by running the Windows version with CrossOver (commercial counterpart of wine). To me, this is better than anything else I found so far. Here are the installation instructions:

http://jastram.de/blog/blog.php?/archives/414-Eclipse-Process-Framework-EPF-on-Linux-64-bit.html

For those not willing to spent €50 for CrossOver, maybe someone will explore using wine instead.

- Michael
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Re: 64-bit Linux [message #1728851 is a reply to message #892652]

Thu, 07 April 2016 21:25

Javier Alcala

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Registered: April 2016

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The solution that worked for me was:

1. get a 32 bits java VM (download form otn.oracle.com)
2. adjust epf-composer/epf.ini to use it. Adding the following two lines starting epf.ini

-vm
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-oracle-1.7.0.79/jre/bin/java

Hope it helps

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