Hi - I hate replying to top posted replies... On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 16:09 -0600, Steve Strong wrote: > 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- ---- It's a good thing that not everyone thinks the same way that you do because nothing would ever get fixed in Fedora using your methods. This might be useful to OP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409231 This might be useful to anyone trying to debug issues with F8 and eclipse... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora&version=8&component=eclipse&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc= Craig
