PDT

I’ve technically been taking a very long break (3 months without blogging about anything but my wedding, you know what I mean) and started to feel like I need to get out of the shell and start doing something useful. I quickly remember some PHP projects that I did for fun and the next thing I knew was my PDT Eclipse installation was outdated. The online update seems to take forever and by that I decided to grab the latest release and do a re-install of PDT, and upon running it I get this error;

shakir@herugrim ~ $ temp/bin/eclipse/eclipse
* run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686
* IMPORTANT: some Java tools are not available on some VMs on some architectures

There’s no need to panic and a quick googling show me exactly how to get over the problem which is to execute the program as the following;

shakir@herugrim ~ $ temp/bin/eclipse/eclipse -vm $(java-config –java)

That solves the problem, and the next thing is to update my KDE link and shortcut for the program using kmenuedit;

That was easy. After launching Eclipse it complains about not being able to handle the SVN stuff that I’ve been using for the project. It’s time to install subclipse, and PyDev came next, among few other plugins that I normally install for my Eclipse.

Happy coding to myself

p/s: I’m installing PDT Eclipse downloaded from the official site, and not using Gentoo’s portage. I don’t know if those using other distro to face the same problem.