The Eclipse Debian package is outdated and not maintained currently [0]. I recommend downloading the most recent version of Eclipse directly from their website [1]. The installation is trivial and works out of the box.
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681726 [1] https://www.eclipse.org/ On 08/03/2017 07:04 PM, rudu wrote: > Hello, > > It was almost a year ago when I last used Eclipse to work on some Java > projects and everything was going fine. > Today, it freezed on its splash screen on every launch. > I first removed ~/.eclipse to no avail. > When I removed path/to/my/workspace/.metadata Eclipse did open a fresh > window where I should have been able to re-create my Java project ... > unless there was no way to initiate Java projects anymore. > I purge eclipse and its dependencies : > # apt-get autoremove eclipse* --purge > > Then did a fresh install : > $ dpkg -l eclipse* | grep ^ii > ii eclipse 3.8.1-10 all Extensible Tool > Platform and Java IDE > ii eclipse-jdt 3.8.1-10 all Eclipse Java > Development Tools (JDT) > ii eclipse-pde 3.8.1-10 amd64 Eclipse Plug-in > Development Environment (PDE) > ii eclipse-platform 3.8.1-10 amd64 Eclipse platform > without development plug-ins > ii eclipse-platform-data 3.8.1-10 all Eclipse platform > without development plug-ins (data) > ii eclipse-rcp 3.8.1-10 amd64 Eclipse Rich > Client Platform (RCP) > > Still, there is no way to generate a java project. > Did I overlooked anything ? > > I'am running debian testing. > > Thanks in advance for any hint. > > Rudu >