Eclipse executable launcher error: Unable to locate companion shared library

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Cbas picture Cbas · Aug 15, 2011 · Viewed 459.7k times · Source

I had Eclipse Indigo installed on my computer with the Android plugin and it was working perfectly for about two weeks. Today, I updated java and quicktime then restarted my computer. When it booted back up, eclipse had completely vanished - all the program files have completely disappeared. When I try to reinstall it, I get an error message that says

The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.

What happened and how can I fix it?

Answer

blue-sky picture blue-sky · Jun 10, 2012

I've just encountered the same issue. The problem for me was Windows 7 default unzipper program. It has a problem when it encounters files that have a deep file structure. I read about this issue some time ago but can't recall the article. Fix for me is to unzip the Eclipse download using WinZip (or some other tool which does'nt have this issue).

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