Re: [eclipse-dev] installation of Eclipse on SuSE 8.2 linux

[Marcus Fihlon <marcus.fihlon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003 15:58 schrieb John Huang:

> For user to start up Eclipse, one thing you have to keep in mind,
> that user's workspace directory should be writable for this user. So
> for better practice, you should use -data parameter when you start up
> eclipse. Create a separate empty directory userworkspace under
> eclipse directory(or somewhere), change userworkspace to owned by the
> user who want to start up eclipse. Then start up eclipse like
> ./eclipse -data ./userworkspace. This should solve your the problem.

Hi,

if you use Linux this is not nessesary. Eclipse uses "$HOME/workspace" 
by default if no "-data" parameter is given. The workspace should not 
be kept in the eclipse directory, it should better be within the home 
directory of the user.

cu
Marcus

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