Eclipse in Edgy

[Michael R. Head]

Also, check out
http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/multi_user_installs.html

mike

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:55 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:17 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> > Has anyone installed Eclipse in Edgy?  The install seems to go ok, but
> > when you try and update anything, or install plug-ins, do you get errors
> > that look like this?
> > (I've had an open thread on the eclipse newcomers board for a couple of
> > days with no replies, so I'm guessing it's either just me, or they're
> > not as hospitable as the Ubuntu community.
> 
> I don't use the packaged Eclipse, since I want to be able to install
> updates.
> 
> When Eclipse was first packaged for Debian back in the day, there was a
> lot of work put in to make sure plugins could be installed to the home
> directory. I don't think that code has kept up with the Eclipse
> releases. The upshot is that it looks like you're running updates and
> trying to write to read-only locations. /usr/lib is a system folder and
> therefore you can't modify its contents as a user.
> 
> You have a couple options
>      1. Somehow attempt to convince Eclipse to have extra installation
>         locations - I think this is possible, but I'm not totally sure
>         how
>      2. Give yourself write access to /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins
>         and /usr/lib/eclipse/features
>               * You can do this via sudo, but I don't recommend running
>                 something as big as eclipse via sudo -- that's a big
>                 security problem
>               * The better alternative is to taken ownership
>                 of /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins
>                 and /usr/lib/eclipse/features
> 
> Warning: I haven't tested this, but that should be a fairly complete
> explanation of the problem.
> 
> > 
> > Unable to complete action for feature "Eclipse Platform" due to errors.
> >   Unable to complete action for feature "Eclipse RCP" due to errors.
> >     Unable to create file
> > "/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg". [/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg (No such file or directory)]
> >     Unable to create file
> > "/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg". [/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg (No such file or directory)]
> >   Unable to complete action for feature "Eclipse RCP" due to errors.
> >     Unable to create file
> > "/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg". [/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg (No such file or directory)]
> >     Unable to create file
> > "/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg". [/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg (No such file or directory)]
> >   Unable to create file
> > "/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg". [/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.rcp_3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq/eclipse_update_120.jpg (No such file or directory)]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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