OpenSUSE :: Get Eclipse 3.4 / JavaEE To Run On 11.2?

For those interested, I'll share my solution on getting Eclipse running smoothly with 11.2.

My very first problem was that I needed the JavaEE version, which is not in the distro. The second problem is that the distro version has issues:

Problems with the distro version: The infamous "button doesn't work" problem (more on this later) The plugin / updates don't work, so you can't add any modules Copying and pasting is very erratic

However, if you simply download and unpack 3.4.2 from the Eclipse site, you'll get a "Problem has occurred" error when you try to launch it.

Here are the steps to get this running:

* Unpack the .tar.gz package into a folder that is writable by your userid

* To fix the "An Error has occured" problem: Add the following line at the very end of the eclipse.ini file:

Code:
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner If you run on 32-bit, replace 'lib64' with 'lib'.

* To fix the "button doesn't work" problem: in your ~/bin directory, create a file called eclipse.sh and put the following in there:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# work around e#290395 / LP: #458703
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
# replace /home/noarch/apps/eclipse with the path

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