java.lang.ClassNotFoundException while starting eclipse
After purging and reinstalling eclipse with dpkg (Ubuntu) there is an error throws there:
cat /home/sergiy/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.7.0_155965261/configuration/1337883707989.log
!SESSION Thu May 24 21:21:48 EEST 2012 -----------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2012-05-24 21:21:48.242
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:619)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)
Here is /usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/config.ini file:
#This configuration file was written by: org.eclipse.equinox.internal.frameworkadmin.equinox.EquinoxFwConfigFileParser
#Wed Apr 04 13:29:31 UTC 2012
org.eclipse.update.reconcile=false
eclipse.p2.profile=PlatformProfile
[email protected]/workspace
osgi.framework=file\:plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.7.2.dist.jar
equinox.use.ds=true
eclipse.buildId=I20110613-1736
osgi.bundles=reference\:file\:org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator_1.0.200.dist.jar@1\:start
org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl=file\:org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info
eclipse.product=org.eclipse.platform.ide
osgi.splashPath=platform\:/base/plugins/org.eclipse.platform
osgi.framework.extensions=
osgi.bundles.defaultStartLevel=4
[email protected]/../p2/
eclipse.application=org.eclipse.ui.ide.workbench
osgi.bundlefile.limit=100
How to fix this issue? Thanks in advance!
Answer
The first recommendation is to NOT install Eclipse from any Linux package manager or software repository. Instead, just get it from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. The builds that linux distro's install are often modified (mangled, some would say).