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I was able to install into rc1. But when trying to install into rc2 I get the version error dialog indicating that “Eclipse 3.0 M9+” is required. I would think rc2 fits this requirement, no?
Maybe you can just copy the links folder of your existing RC1 installation into the fresh RC2 base directory to give it a try.
I’m not sure about the chance of success as I’m currently downloading the RC2 archives 🙂
There has probably been a change that is affecting the installer’s version check. I’d recommend doing what pingus sayd if you’ve got an existing installation. Simply install RC2 in parallel and copy the <eclipse-home>/links directory from your RC1 installation into your RC2 installation.
If you already deleted the RC1 dirs you can also install manually using the zip-Archive variant of MyEclipse.
All infos needed you can find in the included file manual-install.html.
Btw, I’ve just installed RC2 and MyEclipse 3.8 Beta 1. Seems to work.
Btw, I’ve just installed RC2 and MyEclipse 3.8 Beta 1. Seems to work.
That’s good news! I opened a problem report on the installer not being able to recognize RC2 that we’ll fix for Beta 2. Thanks for all the help in running this down and suggesting workarounds.
Something is missing here: When I attempt to add the myEclipse directory to my 3.0 RC2 extensions, i get an error message stating that the .eclipseproduct file is missing. I just unzipped the myeclipse_030800Beta1.zip into <dir>\\myEclipse and tried to add that. No go.
Any ideas why that might happen? I have a fresh and clean install of Eclipse 3.0RC2, having just downloaded it yesterday.
Where did you download your distribution from? At what point are you seeing this message? Some of the third party Linux packagers don’t properly package Eclipse so that it lacks a <eclipse-home>/eclipse/.eclipseproduct file is not included.
I got the eclipse install from the eclipse.org main download site.
The error message comes when I try to add an extension site via the “Manage Configuration” software update tool, via Help->Software Updates->Manage Configuration… -> New -> Extension Location.
The error message, when I select the MyEclipse directory, is:
Selected location does not contain a product extension. An extension should consist of a directory named eclipse, which contains a marker file called .eclipseproduct and the features and plugins folders. Please select another location.
This is after extracting the MyEclipse manual install zip to the MyEclipse directory.
Also, if I try to follow the manual install instructions and add the link to the directory as specified, nothing occurs. No new feature is installed.
Interesting. This is a new behavior with RC2. Can you try to create an empty file called .eclipseproduct and place it in the <myeclipse-install>/eclipse directory and try to add the extension again. What does that do?
In fact that’s what I did, prior to asking.
I got the same result, whether I created the .eclipseproduct as an empty file, or substituting reasonable values into it from the .eclipseproduct in <eclipse dir>
The manual install method in the HTML works, though, so it’s working for me, but it was a bit odd.
I’d like to help checking this, but at the moment I’m just packing to leave town for the next week or so, so I probably won’t have time to do detail work. I’ll check when I get back, though, and possibly something might occur to me.
We’ll look into the initial installation method you attempted, since it’s new for this RC candidate and may not be working properly. If it’s a problem on our end, we’ll get it fixed by our next beta release. Thanks for reporting back on it.
