Comment 8 for bug 68053

I can start Eclipse when I download it and run it from my /home directory...

I will try this tomorrow and see if it works

Regards

Stuart

claudio@ubuntu wrote:

>I had the same problem. I can now start eclipse by doing this:
>
>apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l |grep eclipse|awk '{print $2}'` `dpkg -l
>|grep libswt|awk '{print $2}'`
>
>rm -rf /usr/share/eclise /usr/lib/eclipse
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>apt-get install eclipse
>
>Eclipse now runs. The only problem is that it does not close when
>closing the application (File-Exit):
>
>
>25524 pts/3 S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java -install /usr/lib/eclipse -startup /usr
>
>I will open an other bug report for this problem.
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