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Re: Java perspective missing in Eclipse 3.8.1-10

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The Eclipse Debian package is outdated and not maintained currently [0].
I recommend downloading the most recent version of Eclipse directly from
their website [1]. The installation is trivial and works out of the box.

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681726
[1] https://www.eclipse.org/

On 08/03/2017 07:04 PM, rudu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It was almost a year ago when I last used Eclipse to work on some Java
> projects and everything was going fine.
> Today, it freezed on its splash screen on every launch.
> I first removed ~/.eclipse to no avail.
> When I removed path/to/my/workspace/.metadata Eclipse did open a fresh
> window where I should have been able to re-create my Java project ...
> unless there was no way to initiate Java projects anymore.
> I purge eclipse and its dependencies :
> # apt-get autoremove eclipse* --purge
> 
> Then did a fresh install :
> $ dpkg -l eclipse* | grep ^ii
> ii  eclipse                 3.8.1-10     all          Extensible Tool
> Platform and Java IDE
> ii  eclipse-jdt             3.8.1-10     all          Eclipse Java
> Development Tools (JDT)
> ii  eclipse-pde             3.8.1-10     amd64        Eclipse Plug-in
> Development Environment (PDE)
> ii  eclipse-platform        3.8.1-10     amd64        Eclipse platform
> without development plug-ins
> ii  eclipse-platform-data   3.8.1-10     all          Eclipse platform
> without development plug-ins (data)
> ii  eclipse-rcp             3.8.1-10     amd64        Eclipse Rich
> Client Platform (RCP)
> 
> Still, there is no way to generate a java project.
> Did I overlooked anything ?
> 
> I'am running debian testing.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hint.
> 
> Rudu
> 

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Java perspective missing in Eclipse 3.8.1-10 rudu <rudu@cegetel.net> - 2017-08-03 19:20 +0200
  Re: Java perspective missing in Eclipse 3.8.1-10 Joey Corleone <joey.corleone@mail.ru> - 2017-08-05 14:00 +0200
    Re: Java perspective missing in Eclipse 3.8.1-10 rudu <rudu@cegetel.net> - 2017-08-06 00:50 +0200

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