Re: Eclipse Install Error

From: Gil Blais (gilblais_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:36:14 GMT

Tony - another way is to download the M7 (latest and so far the greatest)
version .zip file, unzip it - allowing unzip to create directories on the
fly, fire up the eclipse.exe and you are off to the races. All you need do
after that is tweak your environment options which are pretty intuitive.
Building from source ??? Why bother ???

"Tony Pedley" <tPedley@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:2cd60d86.0402141419.30083abb@posting.google.com...
> I have just about given up trying to get eclipse running on my
> machine.
>
> Its running on Mandrake 9.2 with the latest Java SDK.
>
> I have tried building it from sources and from rpm. When I start it
> all I get is a request to look at the workspace .log file. That
> contains the following
>
> Any ideas anyone
> All the best
>
> Tony
>
>
!SESSION ------------------------------------------------------------------- 

---
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Feb 11, 2004 18:39:23.572
> !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
> !STACK
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Application not found:
> org.eclipse.ui.ide.workbench.
>         at
org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.jav
a:856)
>         at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:461)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>         at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39
)
>         at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
.java:25)
>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
>         at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:299)
>         at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:767)
>         at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:601)
>