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@xxxxxxxxx> 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
