What is going on with Eclipse, and PUP?

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Jan 30 18:18:34 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:38 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:19 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > On 30/01/2008, Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ======== Eclipse ===========
> > > I have posted several posts in regards to Eclipse and it seems that no one has
> > > been able to address it.
> > >
> > > I have complained that the latest Eclipse will not work.  It does not even
> > > come up at all and eclipse points you to your ~/.eclipse log file of which it
> > > appears that PDE is not working and that there are several files missing.
> > >
> > > I have completely removed eclipse from my system (as far as I can tell) and
> > > then re-installed the BASIC eclipse offered via Package Manager and yet it
> > > tells me the same thing, check the log files, same errors.
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me why there is silence on this?  Am I in the right mailing
> > > list (For users of Fedora) regarding Eclipse or do I have to report elsewhere
> > > like (Fedora Develop Java) list which I did anyway whilst this mailing list
> > > shows very little or almost no activity for several days?
> > 
> > Bug reports should be filed at http://bugzilla.redhat.com.
> > 
> Yea, a bug report can be filed, but the root question still is: do the
> Eclipse packages install a working app?  Does anyone have it working?
> 
> BTW, I downloaded what I use (which works) from eclipse.org and is
> Version 3.3.1.1, Build ID M20071023-1652.  My system is a Dell XPS 1710,
> Fedora kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8.  I see the filename on the eclipse site
> is "eclipse-jee-europa-fall2-linux-gtk.tar.gz."
----
I suppose someone would have to define working...I don't use it but it
did just now launch when I started it up. I don't know what to do with
it however...

# ps aux|grep eclipse
craig    11833 11.9 11.0 347492 112656 ?       Sl   11:09
0:14 /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
--launcher.library /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.0.v20070606/eclipse_1017a.so -startup /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
root     11880  0.0  0.0   4044   680 pts/9    S+   11:11   0:00 grep
eclipse

# rpm -qa|grep europa
# rpm -qa|grep eclipse
eclipse-cvs-client-3.3.0-30.fc8
icu4j-eclipse-3.6.1-1jpp.3.fc8
eclipse-jdt-3.3.0-30.fc8
eclipse-rcp-3.3.0-30.fc8
eclipse-ecj-3.3.0-30.fc8
eclipse-mylyn-bugzilla-2.0.0-9.fc8
eclipse-platform-3.3.0-30.fc8
eclipse-cdt-4.0.1-1.fc8
tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.25-1jpp.1.fc8
eclipse-changelog-2.6.0-1.fc8
eclipse-mylyn-2.0.0-9.fc8

# alternatives --config java

There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
   1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
*+ 2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java

FWIW

Craig




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