Jul 07
Eclipse Ganymede startup problem in Ubuntu
eclipse swt xulrunner ubuntuI installed Ganymede on Ubuntu, but it crashed on startup:
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error
Since a while SWT is able to use Mozilla as browser, that's what the XPCOM is about. The problem is SWT trying to use my Mozilla installation and fails.The Eclipse FAQ describes some settings for linux browsers. But this did the trick for me.
Install a separate version of xulrunner
:
sudo apt-get install xulrunner
Append this to $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse.ini
:
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner
Done!
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