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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Subclipse, Eclipse plugin does not work on Ubuntu

You've installed Eclipse, the subclipse subversion plugin, set up your
repository locations and are ready to go. Left click on your favourite
subversion repository to see the contents. Uh-oh:
'
Folder " does not exist remotely.
'

This is because the JVM that ships with Ubuntu (GNU gij) doesn't even
remotely work.
OK that's very unfair. It does seem to screw up Eclipse and Subclipse
though.
To fix this problem, you need to download the latest Sun JDK install it
somewhere convenient, and (importantly) make sure that this JDK's bin
folder is on the front of your path. If you've got it set correctly
then executing java -version at the command line should give you the
reassuring
"
java version "1.6.0"
....
java HotSpot(TM) Client VM.....

"