Getting subclipse to work on Ubuntu 64 and Indigo - Incompatible JavaHL library loaded. 1.7.x or later required

Question

How do I fix this?

I am on ubuntu 64 using Eclipse indigo. I installed http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x.

At first I got this error:

Failed to load JavaHL Library.
These are the errors that were encountered:
no libsvnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
no svnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
no svnjavahl in java.library.path
java.library.path = /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/../lib/amd64:/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/jni:/lib:/usr/lib

Then after some googling I did this:

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

Then in the eclipse.ini I added this line:

-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

I then created this directory and contents:

~/.eclipse/eclipserc
VMARGS="-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni"

I am still getting this error:

Incompatible JavaHL library loaded.  1.7.x or later required.

What more can I do?

Answer 1

Remove your existing libsvn-java:

sudo apt-get purge libsvn-java

Then, add the following software source and re-install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dominik-stadler/subversion-1.7
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

(found here)

thanks to @codemonkeybr: also update your eclipse.ini with -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

(or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/jni depending on your system ...)

Update for Ubuntu 14 use Subversion 1.8 instead:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dominik-stadler/subversion-1.8