me too. here's what i did:
* i did NOT install fedora's versions of java and eclipse
* i installed sun's java jdk 1.6.3 and eclipse's Europa
* i changed my anacron job to exclude java and eclipse from being
updated with yum
* i used alternatives to make sun's java and javac versions the
"current best version"
and it seems to work. good luck. this is a mess that fedora could have
prevented (IMYO)
steve
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 13:35 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> F8, Fedora's native Eclipse, v3.3.0
>
> I am having a helluva time trying to get eclipse to work. I had originally
> used the default eclipse installation when I installed the OS and running it
> came up at the time. As for updating Eclipse, I simply used Eclipse's
> software updater. But when I did that, I ran into conflicts especially
> dealing with Eclipse's 3.3.1 patches for which Fedora's eclipse is v3.3.0.
> What a nightmare.
>
> On top of that, pup updated eclipse with Fedora's latest eclipse. After that
> point, eclipse would not even start up. It complains about PDE runtime being
> missing or broken as well as a whole raft of other problems. Sigh.
>
> Ok, ok. I thought to myself that my eclipse installation must be hosed. I
> will remove all traces of eclipse and start over and pray that
> re-installation of eclipse will somehow bring back the dead.
>
> Well, after doing this remove and reinstall several times, playing around with
> different choices, nothing I tried worked.
>
> Some have said eclipse works for them. Well, it does not work for me. It won't
> even come up in it's basic installation by the package manager. I tried to
> manually delete the places that package removal did not remove. In
> ~/.eclipse, /usr/lib/eclipse. /usr/share/eclipse - everwhere I could find
> eclipse, I removed it and then reinstalled it. Nothing worked - it could
> never come up. The error dialog comes and and tells you that it left a log
> behind in your home eclipse directory. The log file is huge. It complains of
> PDE and a whole raft of other problems. Oh, sorry, I am repeating myself.
>
> Did anyone find out how to remove and successfull install and run eclipse?
>
> Thanks-
> Dan
>
