I am using Opensuse 13.1 KDE.
I just installed the new version of eclipse and have the following problem:
if try to start it via K-menu it says
KDEInit could not find 'eclipse' executeable
if i try to start via console it also cant find the command.
I checked the usr/bib, eclipse is in there but as a directory.
If I do
/usr/bin/eclipse/./eclipse
it works.
Any idea how to fix this?
Well, apparently the executable is /usr/bin/eclipse/eclipse.
Which doesn’t make sense.
How exactly did you install it?
You mean the one from home:Mailaender?
AFAICS, this should install the executable to /usr/bin/eclipse, not /usr/bin/eclipse/eclipse.
Maybe you had a directory /usr/bin/eclipse/ right from the start?
Try to remove this, and reinstall eclipse:
sudo rm -r /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo zypper in -f eclipse
This does only work if you added the repo of course.
If not, please ask again for help, with information what you really exactly did to install it.
I did exactly what you said 2 times, I also double checked i really removed the directory in the bin before i did a new install, still everytime I install it, its in eclipse/eclipse
Simply download eclipse from www.eclipse.org
Unpack it under your home directory. It will then be unpacked under /home/user/eclipse
Or if you want eclipse for multiple users then unpack it elsewhere, like under /opt or /usr
Run command file
/home/user/eclipse/eclipse
Or create a KDE/GNOME menu entry for this command.
Bare in mind you need Java installed and its executables reachable.
This would be a bug in the package, but if I download the one from home:Mailaender and open it with Ark, I only see /usr/bin/eclipse in it, no /usr/bin/eclipse/eclipse.
I tried to install it now, and it is /usr/bin/eclipse indeed.
Well, actually /usr/bin/eclipse is a symlink to /usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse:
# ls -l /usr/bin/eclipse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 11. Apr 11:44 /usr/bin/eclipse -> ../lib64/eclipse/eclipse
So the problem actually is that /usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse is a directory:
ll -l /usr/lib64/eclipse
insgesamt 163
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113656 24. Feb 11:31 artifacts.xml
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 224 11. Apr 11:44 configuration
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 24. Feb 11:31 dropins
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 472 11. Apr 11:44 eclipse
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 24. Feb 11:31 eclipse.ini
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 2128 11. Apr 11:44 features
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 9022 9. Okt 2013 icon.xpm
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 144 11. Apr 11:44 p2
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 33304 11. Apr 11:46 plugins
It contains the same stuff that should be in /usr/lib64/eclipse/.
ls -l /usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse
insgesamt 239
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 176 11. Apr 11:44 about_files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18732 17. Jän 17:30 about.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113671 24. Feb 11:32 artifacts.xml
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 224 11. Apr 11:44 configuration
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 24. Feb 11:32 dropins
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20592 27. Mär 18:23 eclipse
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 449 24. Feb 11:33 eclipse.ini
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 16536 12. Feb 14:03 epl-v10.html
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 2128 11. Apr 11:44 features
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 9022 9. Okt 2013 icon.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 61 root root 9230 2. Mai 2013 notice.html
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 144 11. Apr 11:44 p2
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 33328 11. Apr 11:46 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 88 11. Apr 11:44 readme
You should maybe contact the repo maintainer and inform him of the issue.
You can find out his email address by running “rpm -q --changelog eclipse”.
PS: The other package from home:marec2000 doesn’t seem to have this issue, so you might try to install that one.