installing eclipse 3.6 on ubuntu 10.10?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Colin Law wrote:

> On 27 March 2011 14:29, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > ...
> >  replying to my earlier post, i went ahead and installed eclipse
> > 3.6.0 from the PPA.  it seemed to install properly, i got the
> > appropriate entry under Applications -> Programming, but when i start
> > it, i get (briefly) the eclipse helios splashscreen, then nothing.
> > and i have no idea where eclipse might be logging its error messages.
> >
> >  i see nothing in /var/log/messages, so i'm open to suggestions.  or
> > is installing eclipse 3.6.0 from the PPA just plain doomed to failure?
> > thanks.
>
> I don't know about eclipse but often errors can be seen by running an
> app from a terminal window.  First right click on Applications and
> select Edit Menus, Click on Programming then Eclipse and then the
> Properties button to show the command to use.  Open a terminal
> (Applications > Accessories > Terminal and type in the command (leave
> off any % parameters shown in the command).  Errors (helpful or
> otherwise) may then appear in the terminal window.

  i've already tried that -- nothing.  literally.  i type "eclipse" in
a terminal window, the eclipse helios splashscreen comes up, stays
there for a few seconds, then disappears, and the terminal window
simply gives me the prompt back.

  i'm about to try "strace eclipse" to see what it complains about,
i'll report back shortly unless, as i mentioned before, someone can
confirm that this just isn't meant to work.

rday

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