newly-installed eclipse fails to start

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> On Mon, June 13, 2011 17:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   i'm sure i've done something silly but on my fully-updated ubuntu
> > 10.10 system, i installed eclipse (having had it on this system a
> > while back), so this is my current situation:
>
> Eclipse is one of the very few applications where I don't trust
> Ubuntu's package manglement. There used to be a time when Ubuntu was
> a few versions behind, and there wasn't a stable PPA for the latest
> Eclipse.
>
> I just download it from eclipse.org and extract the archive to a
> folder in my home directory.

  that's what i did earlier, and it solved the problem.

rday

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