Re: ECLiPSE at home

Mark Wallace wrote:
> 
> Every now and then I try to install the latest version of eclipse at home on my linux box.
> Every time I hit the same problem:
> ppp-mgw: ./eclipse
> ./eclipse: /usr/local/eclipse-5.0/bin/i386_linux/eclipse.exec: No such file or directory
> There IS such a file, and I can 'touch' it, but I can;'t execute it.
> ppp-mgw: touch ./eclipse.exec
> ppp-mgw: ./eclipse.exec
> bash: ./eclipse.exec: No such file or directory
> 
> What could cause this?
> 
> (Oh I should show I'm in the right directory:
> ppp-mgw: ls -lt /usr/local/eclipse-5.0/bin/i386_linux/
> total 802
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root       813173 Jul 15 10:16 eclipse.exec*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          415 Jul 15 09:32 eclipse*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          456 Jul 15 09:32 tkeclipse*



Older Linux versions give this confusing error message.
I think the reason is that a shared library dependency
is not found.

To check it out, edit the 'eclipse' script by replacing
the last line
exec /usr/local/eclipse...
by 
ldd /usr/local/eclipse...
When you then run it, you should get output like this:

        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40003000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40006000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)

or a indication of which library cannot be found.

-- Joachim