Mar 05, 2010

Eclipse plugins fail after installation (on Archlinux)

After installing Atlassian Connector in Eclipse and everything just goes to shit: all installed plugins disappear from preferences. The problem, as it turns out, lies in installing Eclipse as root (sudo pacman -S) and later installing plugins while Eclipse is running as non-root.

So, the right thing to do is either:

  • run Eclipse as root when installing packages; or
  • chown /usr/share/eclipse to the appropriate user.

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