Eclipse do not work with sun.java6-jdk

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:08:11AM +0000, fsco_v-0107 at yahoo.it wrote:
> Hello,
> package eclipse 3.2.1-6 with sun-java6-jdk 6-00-2 on start prints:
> searching for compatible vm...
>   testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/j2se/1.5...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/j2se/1.4...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-ibm...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun...not found
>   testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun...not found
> Could not create /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension. Please run as root:
>     touch /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension
>     chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension
>     chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension
> 
> man eclipse show
> NOTES
>        Eclipse  will  search  for  a  java  virtual  machine  in  this  order:  VM  given  with  the "-vm <JVM>" argument,
>        $JAVA_HOME/bin/java from $HOME/.eclipse/eclipserc and then in the environment and at last use /usr/bin/java.
> 
> and on my laptop java is a link to alternatives, java -version is
> francesco at deneb:~$ whereis java
> java: /usr/bin/java /usr/lib/java /usr/X11R6/bin/java /usr/bin/X11/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz
> francesco at deneb:~$ /usr/bin/java -version
> java version "1.6.0"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode)
> 
> Why eclipse don't start using this JVM?

eclipse currently has its own mechanism to find the JVM to run with. It
checks all paths listed in /etc/eclipse/java_home to detect a working
JVM. This needs to be changed.

To work around this either put the path to your JDK 6
(/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun into /etc/eclipse/java_home as first entry or
put

  JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

into $HOME/.eclipse/eclipserc.


Cheers,
Michael
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