I had the same problem, in a amd64 edgy system. So, for the other illiterate on dpkg-buildpakcage processes like me, I did the following, and it seems to have worked:
1) go to a temporary source directory # cd ~/src 2) get the source # apt-get source eclipse 3) apply the patch, see bug #68380, the first thing there is the pointer to this patch (eclipse.debdiff), just download it # patch -p0 < eclipse.debdiff 4) move into the eclipse directory # cd eclipse-3.2.1/ 5) compile the whole thing, took hours on a dual core 2.167 system, and there was lots of warning/error messages, but it seems to have worked well enough # dpkg-buildpackage -D -nc -b 6) back to the top directory # cd .. 7) install the newly generated .deb (all of them had the version "_3.2.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb"). I'm not sure if all of them are necessary or not ... but I installed all of them over: # dpkg --install libswt3.2-*.deb eclipse-*.deb 8) go back to your normal user, and, very important, remove previous configuration/setup -- that's the way I got things working, maybe not all of it is necessary. Actually I had previously moved my projects out of the way first, and the workspace/ was always some default created by eclipse: $ rm -rf workspace/ .eclipse/ 9) run eclipse, I'm using sun's java here: $ eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java -ws gtk hope this helps someone else :) -- Eclipse will not start (Edgy) https://launchpad.net/bugs/68053 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
