Setting up Eclipse

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Mar 21 07:15:25 UTC 2007


On Mar 20 Andrew Overholt did spake thusly:

> Hi,
>
> * Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> [2007-03-15 23:18]:
>> I'm trying to set up Eclipse 3.2.2 on my laptop. The first problem I
>> hit is that the locations available for saving extensions are all in
>> root territory, /usr/share and /usr/lib. So of course as a non-root
>> user I can't write to them. Is there a location for local storage of
>> extensions? No, that would be too easy.
>
> Actually, we carry a patch in our Fedora Eclipse packages to enable
> users to install into ~/.eclipse.  It should be transparent to a user
> who attempts to install something via an update site.  For those playing
> along at home, you'll be interested to note that this patch is finally
> getting applied upstream since Windows Vista apparently doesn't like
> non-root/administrator users writing to application directories ...
> fancy that :).

Which is the correct behaviour... ;)
User installed stuff should go in the user profile directories on both 
OSen

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