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Hi,
I’m trying to install MyEclipse on Windows on Eclipse 3.0 M6.
When I chose the Eclipse directory during the install the setup program tells me that I cannot install on Eclipse 3 and that I have to choose an Eclipse 2.1 installation or exit.
Can you please help me to get it installed?
Thanks
RicoRico,
In order to install with Eclipse 3 you need to download the 3.7RC2 release which is only available to subscribing customers. What is the name of the file you downloaded?I’m a paying subsriber and I downloaded 3.7.2 (not 3.7.3 like I put in the subject before).
The downloaded file is: EnterpriseWorkbenchInstaller_030700RC2.exeVery strange. Can you open up the .eclipseproduct file in the root eclipse directory that you are pointing the installer to, and paste its contents in here? Do you have Eclipse 2.1.x installed anywhere on your machine?
Yes I have an old version of 2.1.1.
.eclipseproduct of the 3.0 M6 installation
name=Eclipse Platform
id=org.eclipse.platform
version=3.0.0Hmmm … I had a trial version of MyEclipse installed before … on my 2.1.1 installation.
I might not have cleaned it up correctly and have some configuration files or maybe registery entries somewhere?
Although I deleted the MyEclipse directory …lets try this (just a sanity check)
1) grab the Eclipse 3.0M6 SDK release zip, unzip it to “c:\eclipseSanity”
2) Run the eclipse.exe file in the eclipseSanity folder
3) run the MyEclipse installer, point it first to the eclipseSanity dir, then install it to “c:\myeclipseSanity”
4) now run the eclipse.exe file in the eclipseSanity folderDid that work? If that worked then we can focus on cleaning your real install up, if that didn’t work, then we can try some other things and lots of praying.
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wow this machine really doesn’t want to play nice with us. What is the file name of the Eclipse zip you are downloading? Is a nightly or integration build or is it the M6 build? Is it the SDK?
I’ll kick this back to Scott and see what he thinks.
To me, the problem looks like it’s a combination of two things. First, you’re probably not pointing the installer to the proper eclipse directory. Second, the installer is giving you a bad error message do to a bad global search / replace in the installer text that didn’t go quite right.
For example, from Riyad’s post:
3) run the MyEclipse installer, point it first to the eclipseSanity dir, then install it to “c:\myeclipseSanity”
Given the installation scenario outlined, when asked for the Eclipse installation folder, you should point it to “c:\myeclipseSanity\eclipse”. In fact, I believe the installation text says that the directory should be called ‘eclipse’. Failure to do this most likely triggers the erroneous error message, which we’ll take care of for the GA release.
I tried that too and that didn’t work either.
I’m currently using eclipse-SDK-I20040209-win32.zip
I actually have quite a few old eclipse installions 2.1.1, 3.0M2, 3.0M5, 3.0M6. I tried it with all of them and I always get the same error message.OK … just to be precise here is the error message:
Eclipse Version Error
Eclipse Version Error
The folder you specified as Eclipse installtion location folder contains the wrong version of Eclipse. This product on functions properly with Eclipse 3.0M6. Please select ‘Back’ to correctly specify the location of your existing Eclipse 2.1 Installation or ‘Exit’ to quit the Installer.BTW … I tried to install it on a different machine using the same Eclipse version and it worked fine.
Rico
Rico,
The zip you specified is an integration build and we do not test or support installation on anything except the milestone builds. You’ll need to use M6 and in addition ensure that you’re not downloading just the Eclipse SDK, but the entire product, including the plugin development environment.
