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Eclipse Platform "Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.", how can I solve t [message #1834389]

Mon, 09 November 2020 14:27

Nico van de Kamp

Messages: 13
Registered: April 2013

Junior Member

Hello,

I'm logged in as administrator user and running eclipse as this user. I can till now do the things that I want do: working on the OPC book and working on tutorials on the internet to learn Java (with Angular).

But in Eclipse I do a "check for updates" and then a update is found for the Eclipse Platform (see screenshot: index.php/fa/39238/0/

). But as administrator I have "Insufficient access privileges to apply this update."
What I remember that I have installed eclipse as sudo.

The id for the update is: org.eclipse.platform.ide, my expectations is, is that this is the update...url? or is that wrong?

What I have tried is to change the eclipse.ini
-protect --> to #-protect
root --> to #root
and than with the terminal "sudo ./eclipse"

If I press " check for updates" nothing is found? This is the first thing what I not understand, why are updates found under the user admininstrator and not under the sudo?

Than I tried another suggestion <user_adminstrator_name> (in steadoff root):
sudo chown -R <user_adminstrator_name>:<user_adminstrator_name> eclipse/
With the same result: no updates found.

And i tried to get a manual by update url https://org.eclipse.platform.ide. But maybe that is a mistake from my site and is not the correct url.

It is fedora Linux.

I had also another update for the marketplace client which is installed without any issue while I'm running eclipse with the "<user_adminstrator_name>" user

I hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

Nico

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Re: Eclipse Platform "Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.", how can I sol [message #1834855 is a reply to message #1834389]

Thu, 19 November 2020 08:44

Nico van de Kamp

Messages: 13
Registered: April 2013

Junior Member

I have solved my problem. After all I doubting if it was all necessary but it works now.
Temporarily I changed the permissions for:
eclipse 755 --> 777
.eclipseproduct 644 --> 777 (because I saw an error message that this could be overwritten en believe deleted)

I changed eclipse.ini
- protect --> # - protect
root --> # root

And then I was trying to update the platform ide, but I get the message there are no updates. Which was strang to me becaus I knew that there was a new version 2020-09 and I suppose that was for platform.ide
Then I saw the location http://download.exlipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.16. I changed that to 4.17!! After this it was updating my eclipse.

After changing the persmissions back to the original state and I start Eclipse I got the question "This is the first time... automtic update the plugins" . Yes

But now I have the error "No editor descriptor for id org.eclipse.m2e.editor.MavenPomEditor"!!?????

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