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Hi, I downloaded Myclipse 5.5M1 and try to install it on my laptop, which is Vista Home premium platform, but I got error that “application can not be installed”, is there any work around for this at the moment?
There is a workaround, but your “milage may vary”. We explicitly disabled Vista as a supported platform for the installer since Eclipse 3.2.2 is being shipped in a couple of weeks with a bunch of Vista fixes. However, if you want to try MyEclipse 5.5M1 on Vista you can download the Manual Installer and use it instead. The instructions are included in the zip file and it’s packaged as an application extension so it’s quite simple to get it going.
And yes, 5.5M2 will be built on 3.2.2 and the installers will support Vista as a result (mid-March).
I too own a Vista Laptop (mistake… ), but anyways:
“milage may vary” ??
is this to say I would certainly be better off to wait until march for a formal vista installer release? What are possible ramifications for manually installing 5.5M1 on vista?
There’s a way to get the 5.5M1 to be installed on vista.
The steps that I taken:
1. You would need to download 3.2 stream maintenance build http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/M20070212-1330/index.php.
2. You would need to put .myeclipse.properties in your C:\User\<userName> folder.
If you don’t have it. You could create the file with the following content#MyEclipse global properties
#SOME DATE
LICENSE_KEY=[license key]
LICENSEE=[license name]3. Perform manual install of the 5.5M1.
4. Profit 🙂I hope this helps.
🙁
Ok here’s what i’ve got:
————————–-vista basic installed on laptop
-eclipse SDK 3.3.0 installed
-ME-5.1.0GA_E3.2.1 Manual install process
-myeclipse.properties file created as shown above
After doing all of this, I can open a “MyEclipse Image Editor” perspective, but no MyEclipse perspective! It seems it isn’t working at all!
any ideas?
ok, ME 5.5M1 installs fine with SDK 3.2.1 .. except that Im not able to click on anything.
the familiar old “Subscription Key Information” window pops up, and i cant click any of the options on it. :-\
just wait for eclipse 3.2.2 eh?
by creating my own .myeclipse.properties file, i was able to bypass the “Subscription Key Information” pop up and actually create a HelloWorld app. Everything works great in development, except that MyEclipse cannot deploy to any of the configured servers.
I can get tomcat to deploy a war by creating it on my desktop and flashing it over to my laptop, but theres no way to deploy an app i create on my vista MyEclipse to tomcat on my vista machine
*sigh*
Im almost certain that this is all due to the way Vista demands explicit user permission for every individual file write, file move, file delete, and everything else… In essence MyEclipse isnt able to do any file IO, which is necessary to deploy.
In essence MyEclipse isnt able to do any file IO, which is necessary to deploy.
That sounds reasonable. Our deployers do need to do a lot of file I/O. The Tomcat deployment area isn’t under “Program Files” or anything, is it?
Maybe the Mac vs PC Vista Ad isn’t all that overstated after all.
aye, ive installed: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat5.5
is this a problem??
Im getting to the point id like to wipe vista off this laptop.. I really need MyEclipse to run on it.
I think with Vista there’s an issue about installing things under Program Files and having access to write to the directories there. So, I’d recommend installing Tomcat elsewhere since the deployment directory is under the install and needs to be writable. Just installing Tomcat and MyEclipse *outside* of Program Files will make things work much more smoothly for this reason on Vista.
I changed the installation location of tomcat5 to C:\apachesoftware\tomcat5\
The problem persists: I can develop apps, and export them to wars, however the built-in deploy funcionality of myEclipse does not work at all.
My “workaround” for this, until a vista-friendly MyEclipse is released, is to manually export the .war file directly to the webapps folder.
thanks for the suggestions though.
-Lance
H, How you guys going with 5.5M2 now, really can’t wait for its release, a couple of weeks really wasted and unproductive, the development status is still not updated on the web, just wonder how it is going?
Guys,
If you want to ease this process on Vista while we are still working around UAC, try and install everything under C:\Users\<User Name>, as your user you have full permissions under this directory. Mac is like this, they create an “Applications” dir under the user dir that you can install to, I did something similar on Vista just to avoid constant UAC prompts and issues so I have MyEclipse, Tomcat and some other apps I use during development installed under C:\Users\Riyad\Applications. I do the same thing on Linux under my $HOME dir just to avoid permission issues. The last thing you need during development is to be screwing around with permissions.
