On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:32:04 pm Andrew Overholt wrote: > Mark C. Allman wrote: > > 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? > > Of course. I think Dan's on the road to fixing his issues. He had lots > of RPMs that were missing files. When he fixes that, I have no doubt > it'll work. > Andrew Yes, Andrew is right. I have gotten my eclipse running now. You can use the information in the following link to help debug your eclipse packages. It should show you or the developer what might be broken with your eclipse installation. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebuggingEclipseProblems We think that my main issue was centered around the issue of completely removing the eclipse package and trying to start over clean. I had 'yum remove eclipse*', then deleted /usr/{lib,share}/eclipse not realizing that I had not removed the libswt3-gtk2.i386 package first. Re-installting eclipse will not fix the problem. Having first removed libswt3-gtk2, icu4j-eclipse, eclipse-ecj, and tomcat5-jasper-eclipse and then (re)install eclipse fixed my problem. Another point to make here is that if you should decide to use eclipse's software updater, you may encounter a situation for certain packages which are hardwired (by eclipse) wanting to be installed in /usr/{lib,share}/eclipse directory which will require root permissions and as a normal user, installation will completely fail. Most other packages allows a normal user to change the package's target directory. I believe Andrew is saying that hardwired package target directory is a bug and all packages should be user-definable target directory. Do not be tempted to change the permissions to allow the Software updater to install packages in /usr/{lib,share}/eclipse directories or in directories that do not have normal user permissions. This is how I got into this mess in the first place. The specific packages that I found wanting to be installed was: "Eclipse CVS Client", and "Java Development Tools" Meanwhile, I am not sure what to do about installing the above two packages - that is another issue maybe Andrew can tell me at this point. Hey Andrew? :D Another thing, when I use the Eclipse Software Updater, I picked 'Europa Discovery', and selected everything except "Eclipse CVS Client" and "Eclipse Java Development Tools", and unfortunately - there was a conflict. The conflict is that the latest Eclipse Software version is v3.3.2 and even though I have changed my installation target directory, it still complains that in doing so, it will conflict with the same packages of v3.3.0 located in the /usr/{lib,share}/eclipse directories. I am not sure what to do about this case either. Andrew? :D Well that's it for now. Dan
