________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [news.eclipse.platform] Re: Installing eclipse 3.0 in a common Linux directory * From: Jerry Feldman * Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:42:57 -0400 * Newsgroups: eclipse.platform * Organization: Boston Linux and Unix * User-agent: KNode/0.7.2 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jerry Feldman wrote: > I had initially installed eclipse from the SuSE 9.0 distribution DVD. > Initially, I unzipped Eclipse 3.0 in the /opt directory to replace 2.1. > The problem was that the configuration subdirectory must be writable. My > solution was to make /opt/eclipse/confirguration read-write-execute by > all. This works fine on a single user workstation, but it does not allow > for multiple simultaneous users. > > BTW: The existing $HOME/workspace was able to be used by both Eclipse 2.1 > and 3.0, but I have now completely switched to 3.0. > > As a Linux/Unix person, I don't particularly like to make system > directories writable by all. Is there a better way to set the > confirguration directory on a per-user basis. Thanks for your answers. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * References: + [news.eclipse.platform] Installing eclipse 3.0 in a common Linux directory o From: Jerry Feldman * Prev by Date: [news.eclipse.platform] Problem in Dragg and Drop to an Editor * Next by Date: [news.eclipse.platform] special character keyboard assignment scrambled all of a sudden * Previous by thread: [news.eclipse.platform] Re: Installing eclipse 3.0 in a common directory * Next by thread: [news.eclipse.platform] Question About Using PDE Build * Index(es): + Date + Thread