I've used Eclipse on Mac and install has always been to just extract
archive and run just as you can do on Windows.

Occationally you'll have a bad download, and then what you describe
occures.

KEB

On Jul 16, 7:23 pm, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I just downloaded the latest Eclipse and the Archive Utility had no
> trouble expanding it into my Downloads folder, so I've failed to replicate
> the problem.
> I'd first try the download again. If AU fails to open it again, go into the
> terminal and try unzip
> ( > unzip /path/to/eclipse-jee-indigo-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz)
>
> where /path/to is probably something like
>
> /Users/yourusername/Desktop or /Users/yourusername/Downloads
>
> You might also try gunzip, which is the gnu utility. I'm not sure what the
> differences are, but they seem to be distinct utilities for the same purpose
> - perhaps one will be better at coping with your particular situation than
> the other.
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Vince O'Sullivan 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Sorry the information was a little sparse (and accompanied by my
> > general frustration with Unix).  Normally, I would simply have copied
> > and pasted the text of the error message into the email but I can't
> > seem to copy the text directly; so here it is (copied manually):
> > Archive Utility - Unable to unarchive "eclipse-jee-indigo-macosx-cocoa-
> > x86_64.tar.gz" into "Desktop".  (Error 1 - Operation not permitted.)
>
> > Thx.
>
> > On Jul 15, 5:28 pm, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Vince - can you give a little more information about what's going wrong?
>
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