RE: [eclipse-dev] I Do not succeed in running Eclipse on Linux Red Hat 7

[Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx]

In general, starting the binary is all you need to do (i.e. "./eclipse"). If it can't find your java vm, it should put up a dialog indicating this.

btw, the eclipse.tools newsgroup is the correct place to be asking this kind of question.

McQ.

"Wout Perquin" <wout.perquin@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 12/24/2001 12:17 AM Please respond to eclipse-dev

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Hi thanks.
I tried to run that file but it didnt want to run.  I tried bash and sh.
Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed (page 841) tells something about how binaries can
be run by using the sysctrl pseudo-files utility.  It seems I need to
register the 'Magic Cookie' of the Eclipse binary by echoing something.  I
am not sure what.
Does anybody has experience with this specific problem ?
Regards, Wout

-----Original Message-----
From: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary Murphy
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 4:51 AM
To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] I Do not succeed in running Eclipse on Linux
Red Hat 7.1


There is a native Linux binary, called 'eclipse', that will start the
application.  On WIndows, there is an eclipse.exe file that will start it.


Wout Perquin wrote:

>Hi All,
>I have downloaded eclipse-SDK-20011206-linux-motif.zip and extracted it in
>/usr/eclipse.
>I assumed that java -jar /usr/eclipse/startup.jar would start Eclipse.  But
>that is not the case because there is no Manifest file in the startup.jar.
>Next I copied /usr/eclipse/startup.jar into /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/jre/lib/ext
>and ran java org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.
>I got the below messages:
>Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
>java.lang.NullPointerException
>                 at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.searchForBoot(Main.java:309)
>                 at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.getBootPath(Main.java:260)
>                 at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.getBootLoader(Main.java:188)
>                 at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:148)
>                 at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:502)
>                 at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:362)
>
>I believe that Main cannot find one of the following classes (snippet
copied
>from Main):
>                 private static final String PI_BOOT = "org.eclipse.core.boot";
>                 private static final String BOOTLOADER =
>"org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader";
>                 private static final String UPDATELOADER =
>"org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.LaunchInfo";
>
>I copied all /usr/eclipse/plugin/<path>/*.jar files into
>/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/jre/lib/ext, but got the same result.
>
>I looked in the eclipse-dev archive, but could not find any clarification.
>I have looked into the ../eclipse/readme/running.html but that did not make
>me much wiser.
>
>Can somebody give me a hint what I should do.
>
>Many thanks,
>Wout Perquin
>
>BTW I also downloaded eclipse-SDK-20011206-win32 and installed it on
Windows
>98.  That works ok.
>
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