Since I am trying to get Eclipse's Ganemede working again, I am told that I would need to use Sun's JRE, however, I opted to use the JDK instead of the JRE.

I have downloaded and installed Sun's JDK 1.6 & 1.5 into /opt and it looks good. I can via environment setting run the java -version tests.

However

I have added the /opt/jdk[...]/bin/java to the alternatives list in the 'java' category for both versions as follows:

/opt/jdk.1.6[...]/bin/java priority: 1000 /opt/jdk.1.5[...]/bin/java priority: 500

then selected JDK v1.6, and tried to launch Eclipse.

What resulted was a popup failure with the relevant entry:

[...] -vm /opt/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [...] Note: the entire "barf" is at the end of the line.

Why is 'java' replaced with '../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so'? Yes, the -vm path exist.

Is this normal?

Side question: is the JRE instead of JDK required? I wanted the JDK so that I can do Java development but I do not think there is a difference except only where the jre path is different.

Thanks- Dan

The "barf": =========================================== JVM terminated. Exit code=-1 -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/dom/parser/cpp/semantics/CPPTemplates,instantiateTemplate -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/pdom/dom/cpp/PDOMCPPLinkage,addBinding -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/revisited/PythonPathHelper,isValidSourceFile -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/ui/filetypes/FileTypesPreferencesPage,getDottedValidSourceFiles -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/usr/share/eclipse/dropins -Djava.class.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -showsplash /usr/lib/eclipse//plugins/org.fedoraproject.ide.platform_3.4.2/splash.bmp -launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse -name Eclipse --launcher.library /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.101.R34x_v20080805/eclipse_1116.so -startup /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar -vm /opt/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so -vmargs -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init> -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/dom/parser/cpp/semantics/CPPTemplates,instantiateTemplate -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/pdom/dom/cpp/PDOMCPPLinkage,addBinding -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/revisited/PythonPathHelper,isValidSourceFile -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/ui/filetypes/FileTypesPreferencesPage,getDottedValidSourceFiles -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/usr/share/eclipse/dropins -Djava.class.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar

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