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Initial Eclipse Install [message #113263]

Sun, 30 October 2005 14:19

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tim.hedger-gourlay.com

I'm running Fedora Core 4 64 bit, and found the supplied Eclipse package
very slow. Having found a few newsgroup references to the supplied
package being buggy and slow, I deleted it and attempted to install
Eclipse from www.eclipse.org.

Alas, I don't see any installation instructions and I obviously haven't
done the right thing.

From the 3.1 downloads page, I downloaded:
1 - Eclipse SDK 3.1 64 bit bittorrent
2 - Graphical Editor Framework 3.1.1
3 - Eclipse Modeling Framework 2.1.0
4 - Visual Editor 1.1.0.1

I installed the bittorent into /usr/share using tar
I installed the other three into the same place using unzip

All 4 ended up putting files/directories into /usr/share/eclipse

I then ran /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse with no arguments.

The workbench starts but I get an error message in the main window:

Unable to create this part due to an internal error. Reason for the
failure: The editor class could not be instantiated. This usually
indicates that the editor's class name was mistyped in plugin.xml.

I haven't done anything with plugin.xml - find indicates there are masses
of them.

What do I need to do to get the basic Eclipse up and running for Java
development?

Re: Initial Eclipse Install [message #113329 is a reply to message #113263]

Mon, 31 October 2005 07:48

Eclipse User

Tim,

The error you're receiving is caused by Eclipse using the version of
Java included with FC4 (GCJ) as its runtime vm. The version used by FC4
is not capable of running Eclipse out of the box. You'll have a much
easier time if you install a Sun or IBM JRE (actually preferably the IBM
one, Sun's Linux/64 bit JRE suffers from JIT errors running Eclipse).
When you get the JRE installed, make sure its java command shows up
first on the PATH ("which java"), or you can launch Eclipse with the -vm
</path/to/java> command line argument.

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

Re: Initial Eclipse Install [message #113416 is a reply to message #113329]

Mon, 31 October 2005 17:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tim.hedger-gourlay.com

Thank you for the quick reply.
I have already downloaded Sun's 64-bit JDK and JRE 1.5, and as you say
when I tried Eclipse with that it worked fine. You mention problems with
Sun's s/w - is this true of 1.5 or just 1.4? (I looked on IBM's site but
it looks as though they only do a 1.4.2 version of the JDK).

Having got Eclipse up and running fine, I decided to be greedy and install
all the available updates from within Eclipse. I selected everything and
towards the end got a message about one package not being signed, I
accepted it anyway and then got the error below:

Unable to complete action for feature "Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
Documentation" due to errors.
Unable to create file
" /usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.doc_2.1.0/META-IN F/MANIFEST1130796502870.MF ".
[/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.doc_2.1.0/META-I NF/MANIFEST1130796502870.MF
(No such file or directory)]
Unable to create file
" /usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.doc_2.1.0/META-IN F/MANIFEST1130796502870.MF ".
[/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.doc_2.1.0/META-I NF/MANIFEST1130796502870.MF
(No such file or directory)]

Any suggestions on this? (Given all the interdependencies between the
extras I don't seem to be able to download any of them as they all depend
on this modelling framework package).

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