Could someone test Eclipse for me ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 13:07:12 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:59 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * Paul Black <paul+fedora at saturnine.org.uk> [2008-12-01 09:57]:
> > The "cure" seems to be to run Eclipse as root once - this is something
> > that's happened for F10 (F9 didn't have this issue).
> 
> Please don't do this.  This causes files to be created as root which
> then can't be over-written by regular users which messes up the update
> manager.

Please tell me more.  Because I have accidentally run Eclipse as root.  

How do I get back to a perfectly clean Eclipse install.   I've been
uninstalling Eclipse with yum, then deleting /usr/lib/eclipse and
~/.eclipse.   Am I missing anything ?


> There is at least one known issue upstream with plugins being found
> after yum installation. 

Please tell me more.

>  In all cases I've encountered, running with
> -clean will fix it.  As usual, please file bugs for issues you run into.

eclipse -clean ?






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