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["Alan Hoyle" <alanh AT email.unc.edu>]

I think I've found a workaround. Instead of running /usr/bin/eclipse, I try running /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.  

Then I get a "Fedora Eclipse" splash screen (which I didn't get from the java -jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar method), and it all seems to be OK (admittedly, I haven't tested thoroughly).  

Oddly enough, diff /usr/bin/eclipse /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse seems to indicate the files are the same.  

-alan

On 2/28/06, adamc AT unc.edu <adamc AT unc.edu> wrote:

I won't suggest I know what's going on, but there does seem to be
something funky with either the startup.jar or FC4's eclipse
executable, since I get the same error if I specify various
combinations of the Sun VM with the -vm /path/to/sun/java argument and
the -cp /path/to/different/startup.jar.  I peeked in the their
startup.jar, and it *DOES* contain a Main-Class attribute in the
manifest, so I'm inclined to blame the executable.

I've always installed eclipse from the tarball on eclipse.org along
with a Sun JDK (in the opposite order; and I set
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH to make sure that "java" picks up Sun's
binary), and it works fine for me.

HTH

AC


Quoting Alan Hoyle <alanh AT email.unc.edu>:


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I have a fresh FC4 install including Eclipse.

When I type "eclipse" at a command line, I get the following behavior:

  $ eclipse
  Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from startup.jar

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