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I just downloaded the eclipse package from the eclipse website in zipped format. I unzipped it in my user directory and set 777 permissions, but double clicking the eclipse executable won't do anything. I tried running the executable file through terminal, but it shows the error:

bash: ./eclipse: No such file or directory

Then I installed eclipse through Ubuntu software center, which runs successfully. Just the downloaded version doesn't run.

I have installed OpenJDK in Ubuntu 10.10. Can anyone please tell what is wrong with my Eclipse?

Sparky
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  • hit ls in the path your are, if you see the eclipse there, try chmod +x eclipse and ./eclipse, there also might be something wrong with the java version of your system try java --version and paste the output. – topless Oct 10 '11 at 10:47
  • I verified. The file is there and it is set as executable.

    java --version gave the following:- "Could not create the Java virtual machine."

    However, 'java -version' gave this:- "java version "1.6.0_20" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9) (6b20-1.9-0ubuntu1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode)". I'm running OpenJDK.

     – Sparky Oct 10 '11 at 11:08
  • I'm a bit worried about you mentioning "zipped format" - are you 100% sure you downloaded Linux version? Linux version is .tar.gz, and even has executable bit set on the 'eclipse' binary, so no chmod is necessary. – Sergey Oct 10 '11 at 11:48
  • @Sergey Yes, I downloaded the Linux version in a tarball (tar.gz) – Sparky Oct 10 '11 at 12:35

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My OS was actually 64 bit version. And the Eclipse package I downloaded was 32 bit. It seems stupid, but usually 32 bit softwares run without any problem in 64 bit operating systems. So I didn't pay much attention there.

I downloaded the 64 bit version of Eclipse and it works fine.

Thanks @Sergey for the time and patience.

Sparky
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The message from bash suggests that there is no such file - I suggest you to double-check that you're in the correct directory, that execute bit is indeed set etc.

Try invoking it like this:

cd ~/folder/where/you/unpacked-it
chmod +x ./eclipse
./eclipse

Actually, even changing permissions is not necessary - the binary already had executable bit set.

Sergey
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  • 'Allow executing file as program' option is checked. I tried bash eclipse as you said. Then it showed "eclipse: eclipse: cannot execute binary file". Any idea? :( – Sparky Oct 10 '11 at 10:35
  • Yeah, Ubuntu's 'eclipse' command is a bash script while in the archive it is an ELF executable, so bash is not relevant here. – Sergey Oct 10 '11 at 11:41
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I had the same problem about the Eclipse binary and started to follow the suggestions of this thread. I checked the OS and kernel versions, and tried to change the file permissions. After executing the chmod command I checked with ls -l and the output surprised me: nothing was changed.

After some more tries and a minute to think, I figure out the problem: The eclipse folder was in a directory outside the OS drive. It was on a NTFS drive, and I hadn't any special permission on it.

The easy solution was to take it back to the home/opt folder. But I'm still interested in a solution that enables the execution inside a NTFS partition.

Joao Piccinini
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