java.lang.ClassNotFoundException while starting eclipse
eclipse, exception, java, reinstall
Solution
The first recommendation is to NOT install Eclipse from any Linux package manager or software repository. Instead, just get it from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. The builds that linux distro's install are often modified (mangled, some would say).
Problem
After purging and reinstalling eclipse with dpkg (Ubuntu) there is an error throws there: ``` cat /home/sergiy/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.7.0_155965261/configuration/1337883707989.log !SESSION Thu May 24 21:21:48 EEST 2012 ----------------------------------------- !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2012-05-24 21:21:48.242 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:619) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410) ``` Here is /usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/config.ini file: ``` #This configuration file was written by: org.eclipse.equinox.internal.frameworkadmin.equinox.EquinoxFwConfigFileParser #Wed Apr 04 13:29:31 UTC 2012 org.eclipse.update.reconcile=false eclipse.p2.profile=PlatformProfile osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/workspace osgi.framework=file\:plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.7.2.dist.jar equinox.use.ds=true eclipse.buildId=I20110613-1736 osgi.bundles=reference\:file\:org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator_1.0.200.dist.jar@1\:start org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl=file\:org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info eclipse.product=org.eclipse.platform.ide osgi.splashPath=platform\:/base/plugins/org.eclipse.platform osgi.framework.extensions= osgi.bundles.defaultStartLevel=4 eclipse.p2.data.area=@config.dir/../p2/ eclipse.application=org.eclipse.ui.ide.workbench osgi.bundlefile.limit=100 ``` How to fix this issue? Thanks in advance!