On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:
> Hi > > @arkmundi: We cannot help you debug this when you use eclipse from > eclipse.org, but I can tell you that Ubuntu has a vastly different setup than > eclipse.org in this case. Particularly we do not embed the entire eclipse > java compiler into libjasper-java[1] and we have patches in eclipse to make > it load the correct bundles when the help is requested. These changes should be documented in a README.Debian (maybe they are -- ATM I'm not close to an Ubuntu box so I haven't checked) > A word of advice however, eclipse from eclipse.org is (as I recall) > installed as a "single-user" install, which means it expects full read-write > access to its "install location". You should generally not put this in > /usr/lib or /usr/share, but instead unpack it in (e.g.) your home dir and run > it from there. > > To all others; I will strongly recommend *NOT* to start eclipse as root > as it makes it possible for eclipse to modify some metadata about which > plugins are installed via Ubuntu. It can make it very difficult for us > to debug issues if eclipse has changed this metadata. The widespread advice "run some config tool" as root is becoming a problem not just for eclipse, but many other apps -- often user ends up with files in their home directory owned by root. It may be time to start adding checks to the tools or using wrappers to discourage this practice. -- George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -- Help cannot be loaded: Error 500 Unable to compile class for JSP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs