On 07/19/2010 07:44 AM, Magnus wrote: > Well, I just found that tar tvfz <eclipse-archive> shows "tomcat/ > users" as the owner of the files. > > I think that this UID corresponds to my "Debian-exim" id. > > However, I extract the tar files with "tar xvfz". > > Magnus
OK. I can reproduce what you're seeing. I cannot explain, even when you install the GPE into the archive, it doesn't work. When you install as root, it does (did I get that right?) One further question (I think the answer to this is "yes") do you delete the eclipse directory before installing? That's one of the reasons I use update-alternatives. After extracting the archive, I move the directory to the specific version: "mv eclipse eclipse-3.6" and use update-alternatives to point to that directory. In this way, I can be sure of a clean installation, and I also have a backup version in case things go sideways. Anyway, after extracting the archive as "tar xvzf <archive>" the directory is owned by root:root, but the ownership of files in that hasn't changed (still tomcat/users). So, I used the following tar command tar --owner=root --no-same-owner -vxzf /tmp/eclipse-jee-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz > > On Jul 18, 7:12 am, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 07/17/2010 08:23 PM, Magnus wrote: >>>> Hi Rajeev! >> >>>>>> I always installed eclipse as root, i. e. extracting the tar archive >>>>>> as root into /usr/local/eclipse and changing the ownership of all >>>>>> files and folders to root. >> >>>>> You shouldn't need to change the ownership. If you're really extracting >>> the >>>>> files as root, then they are already owned by root. >> >>>> No: >>>> drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-07-18 05:07 . >>>> drwxr-sr-x 12 root root 4096 2010-07-12 19:10 .. >>>> drwxrwsr-x 9 Debian-exim users 4096 2010-06-17 17:15 eclipse >> >> Do you remember the tar command you use to extract the files? I'm wondering >> if you're preserving the owner specified in the ** archive. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
