GRECLIPSE

Plugin installation has no affect

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  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Resolved Resolved
  • Priority: Critical Critical
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0.0m2
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0.1Release
  • Component/s: None
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    Unbuntu 9.04
    Eclipse Galileo SR1
  • Number of attachments :
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Description

Have tried a number of things, but nothing seems to result in a good installation of GEP.

I tried to install the GEP on my existing Eclipse (Galieleo SR1) but got dependency errors. So I uninstalled the thing it was complaining about and tried again. That succeeded without errors, but the New menu item had no Groovy Project entry at all.

So I moved /usr/local/eclipse to /usr/local/eclipse.old, and moved ~/.eclipse to ~/.eclipse.old. Then I downloaded a fresh tar.gz of Eclipse Galieleo SR1 and installed that (as root) under /usr/local (so it landed as eclipse). Then I installed the plugin using http://dist.springsource.org/milestone/GRECLIPSE/e3.5. But again, there's not a single Groovy item in the menu. I verified that the feature is installed.

So I deleted /usr/local/eclipse and ~/.eclipse. I reinstalled Eclipse Galieleo SR1, and installed the plugin using http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/greclipse/snapshot/e3.5. But again, nothing Groovy about it.

I should say that on Windows XP, I did get a fresh Eclipse and GEP installed...I just can't do it on my Ubuntu 9.04 development box.

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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment -

It seems like you might be hitting this problem:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297329

Are you running with a shared installation of groovy-eclipse? And is the install directory writable by the user of Eclipse? And if the answer is yes and no, then can you change that and use a non-shared install of Eclipse instead? This may address your install problem.

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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment - It seems like you might be hitting this problem: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297329 Are you running with a shared installation of groovy-eclipse? And is the install directory writable by the user of Eclipse? And if the answer is yes and no, then can you change that and use a non-shared install of Eclipse instead? This may address your install problem.
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David Witherspoon added a comment -

Uh. Call me an Eclipse noob, but I don't really know. I googled around but didn't find much useful info on "shared installations" of eclipse. I just grab the tar.gz file, copy if to /usr/local/, and then tar xzvf that file right into /usr/local/ I wind up with /usr/local/eclipse, and I run it out of there. Is that a "shared installation"?

You might be onto something with the permissions, though. I'm fairly new to Linux...it hadn't occurred to me that my user account didn't have perms for that...I'll try that tomorrow.

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David Witherspoon added a comment - Uh. Call me an Eclipse noob, but I don't really know. I googled around but didn't find much useful info on "shared installations" of eclipse. I just grab the tar.gz file, copy if to /usr/local/, and then tar xzvf that file right into /usr/local/ I wind up with /usr/local/eclipse, and I run it out of there. Is that a "shared installation"? You might be onto something with the permissions, though. I'm fairly new to Linux...it hadn't occurred to me that my user account didn't have perms for that...I'll try that tomorrow.
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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment -

No worries. This is a fairly uncommon occurrence. Another user recently had the same problem:

http://forum.springsource.org/showpost.php?p=274989&postcount=10

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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment - No worries. This is a fairly uncommon occurrence. Another user recently had the same problem: http://forum.springsource.org/showpost.php?p=274989&postcount=10
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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment -

This bug describes the problem with shared installs:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287246

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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment - This bug describes the problem with shared installs: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287246
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David Witherspoon added a comment -

Ensuring that /usr/local/eclipse and below is owned by my user did allow the Groovy plugin to install correctly.

Since it is a common issue, it would make sense to either (a) check for good permissions on installation, or (b) document the problem in the FAQ.

Thanks for the pointer!

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David Witherspoon added a comment - Ensuring that /usr/local/eclipse and below is owned by my user did allow the Groovy plugin to install correctly. Since it is a common issue, it would make sense to either (a) check for good permissions on installation, or (b) document the problem in the FAQ. Thanks for the pointer!
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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment -

I'll add the entry to the FAQ.

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Andrew Eisenberg added a comment - I'll add the entry to the FAQ.

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  • Assignee:
    Andrew Eisenberg
    Reporter:
    David Witherspoon
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