Bug#481292: eclipse: fails to start, missing JRE/JDK

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> sorry for the late reply
> 
> >>   searching for compatible vm...
> >>     testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea...not found
> >>     testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...not found
> >>     testing /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads...not found
> >>     testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun...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/j2sdk1.6-sun...not found
> >>     testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun...not found
> >>     testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun...not found
> >
> > What package satisfying java1-runtime or java2-runtime have you actually
> > installed?
> 
> I got this:
> 
> $ grep-available -F Provides java1-runtime | egrep "^Package|^Version"
> Package: gij-4.1
> Version: 4.1.2-19
> Package: gij-4.2
> Version: 4.2.3-4
> Package: gij-4.3
> Version: 4.3.0-5
> Package: java-gcj-compat-headless
> Version: 1.0.77-4
> Package: sablevm
> Version: 1.13-1.2
> Package: java-gcj-compat
> Version: 1.0.77-4
> Package: gij
> Version: 4:4.3-1
> $ grep-available -F Provides java2-runtime | egrep "^Package|^Version"
> Package: gij-4.1
> Version: 4.1.2-19
> Package: gij-4.2
> Version: 4.2.3-4
> Package: gij-4.3
> Version: 4.3.0-5
> Package: java-gcj-compat-headless
> Version: 1.0.77-4
> Package: java-gcj-compat
> Version: 1.0.77-4
> Package: gij
> Version: 4:4.3-1

/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj directory exists on your system? Can you please
try installing java-gcj-compat-dev additionally?


Cheers,
Michael