Eclipse 3.5.1

[Christopher T. Stone]

Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
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> Frank Staals wrote:
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>> On 01/02/10 08:39, Huang wen hui wrote:
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>>> I put subclipse plugin into  /usr/local/share/eclipse/dropins, eclipse
>>> 3.5.1 can recoginzed  subclipse correctly.
>>>
>>> --hwh
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>> I tried that, out of the box it did not work though: I ended up chow'ing
>> /usr/local/lib/eclipse to my own user account. Only then I was able to
>> install the (subclipse) plugin. After doing this I am also able to
>> install other plugins (for example VEP ) from the built in wizard. I
>> don't have particular problems chowning it since  I'm the only user on
>> my laptop anyway, but this cannot realy be the intended fix .... Did you
>> also have to do something similar to that ?
>>
>> Thanks for the fix though :)
>>
>>
>>
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> Hi,
>
> Picking up a random commit about plugins problems, could all of those that have problem installing plugins try again with a clean
> ~/.eclipse directory and send me the eclipse log if there's a failure? I've not been able to reproduce any such problems locally.
> Make sure that the main directory is not writable by the user that run the eclipse platform, otherwise it will create files that
> will be left behind on the next update and probably break havoc. If you've run eclipse as a user that can write to the main eclipse
> directory, uninstall eclipse first, manually remove the ${PREFIX}/lib/eclipse directory and reinstall.
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> Please let me know how it goes, I'd like to get everything ironed out before 7.3 hopefully...
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> Regards,
>
> Steph
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>   
Steph,

I deinstalled and reinstalled, had the same issues as described by others.

I renamed the old 3.5 directory and installed clean, no issues at all. 
I've installed CDT, Subclipse, Mylyn, and various others without errors 
through the built-in wizard.

~Chris Stone