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

[Sandro Tosi]

Package: eclipse
Version: 3.2.2-5
Severity: important

Hello,
eclipse fails to start since it misses a JRE/JDK, but:

  # apt-get install eclipse
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  eclipse is already the newest version.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.

  # apt-show-versions eclipse
  eclipse/unstable uptodate 3.2.2-5

so no Depends is missing here, but anyway I got:

  A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
  must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine
  was found after searching the following locations:
  /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/bin/java

in a box at startup, and in a terminal this:

  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
  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

Moreover, why should I run some commands as root to use a users' tool? Shouldn't it be done in postint when installing the package?

Regards,
Sandro

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eclipse depends on:
ii  eclipse-jdt                   3.2.2-5    Java Development Tools plug-ins fo
ii  eclipse-pde                   3.2.2-5    Plug-in Development Environment to
ii  eclipse-source                3.2.2-5    Eclipse source code plug-ins
ii  libc6                         2.7-11     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.3-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.9-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  zenity                        2.22.1-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages eclipse recommends:
pn  eclipse-gcj                   <none>     (no description available)

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