[Stephen McConnell]

I have eclipse verions 2.1.0 installed on my Gentoo linux platform. The method of installing programs on Gentoo Linux is a system similar to BSD called emerge…

I used “emerge” to install Eclipse and have been working with it for several months.

I am attempting to install your plugin in Eclipse, but when I get to the choosing of the eclipse directory, there is no .eclipseproduct file in the eclipse directory (emerge doesn’t put it there… they feel it is unecessary) so YOUR product will not install.

How should I approach getting past this roadblock… I’ve already installed it on Windows at work and love your product (worth every penny of the subscription price).

[Scott Anderson]

there is no .eclipseproduct file in the eclipse directory (emerge doesn’t put it there… they feel it is unecessary)

Unfortunately, they’re wrong. A .eclipseproduct file is required to be present for ALL eclipse-based products, itself included. That’s how add-on products know they have a valid installation configuration. It’s basically a platform requirement.

The easiest way to get around this is to download the full linux distribution of Eclipse from the Eclipse website and simply uncompress it where you want it. That way it will be properly labeled and will comply with the Eclipse-mandated packaging conventions. Once that’s done the installer should run just fine.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[Stephen McConnell]

Scott

Thanks for your quick reply.

While the guys that build the Gentoo emerge for eclipse might be wrong, there was nothing I could do about the emerge script… The emerge utility checksums all the scripts in the package control db that you sync with and when you change it on your local computer it goes fobar. I think there is a way around this, but I don’t know enough about Gentoo’s emerge, yet (I’ve just been a user, but now I want to get into writing my own scripts…)

What I did do was to download the eclipse package and copy the .eclipseproduct file to my installation. That solved the problem and I am now the proud user of your product.

I plan to notify the Gentoo guys about their need to copy that .eclipseproduct file over for plugins to work (the also ommited the plugin-development environment in their emerge…); and to write my own emerge script..

But now, I’ve got it up and running on my linux box.

Great support.. Thank

Stephen McConnell

[Scott Anderson]

Stephen,

I’m glad to hear it was that simple. Some other packagers also neglect to provide the proper version directory suffixes on the Eclipse plugin directories, so it looks like the Gentoo guys are doing pretty good. They’re just one file short. 😉

Good to hear you’re up and running.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[SeJo]

Stephen, Scott,

I’ve been using Eclipse since the beginning i think and i have always remembered that there is a .eclipseproduct file in the gentoo e-build.

(only use eclipse on gentoo except @ one pc @ work)…

dunno what went wrong, but you might want to commit a bug @ gentoo…

greetings,

SeJo

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