Further reading indicates that the mess in the PlatformProfile folder is probably the fault of Eclipse....
Replacing /usr/bin/eclipse script with the following, deleting ~/.eclipse folder and running appears to work OK (note that I have removed GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true because otherwise the thumbs don't get drawn on scrollbars in Unity) #!/bin/sh # work around for e#290395 / LP: #458703 # https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290395 # https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458703 # export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true ECLIPSE=/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse inject_update_site(){ if [ ! -e "$1" ] ; then echo "W: Cannot find $1" 2>&1 return 1 fi cat - >>"$1" <<EOF repositories/http\:__download.eclipse.org_releases_indigo/enabled=true repositories/http\:__download.eclipse.org_releases_indigo/isSystem=false repositories/http\:__download.eclipse.org_releases_indigo/nickname=Indigo Update Site repositories/http\:__download.eclipse.org_releases_indigo/uri=http\://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/ EOF } if [ ! -d ~/.eclipse/ ] ; then $ECLIPSE -clean -initialize || exit $? artifact=$(find ~/.eclipse \ -name org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifact.repository.prefs) metadata=$(find ~/.eclipse \ -name org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository.prefs) for PREFS in $artifact ; do inject_update_site $PREFS && \ echo "I: Injected site to $PREFS" || echo "W: Failed to inject site to $PREFS" 2>&1 done for PREFS in $metadata ; do inject_update_site $PREFS echo "I: Injected site to $PREFS" || echo "W: Failed to inject site to $PREFS" 2>&1 done fi exec $ECLIPSE "$@" ** Bug watch added: Eclipse bugs #290395 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290395 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873187 Title: Eclipse does not include the relevant software plugin repository To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/873187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
