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Error When Launching Eclipse on Ubuntu
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- Daisuke Kobayashi
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Recently I decided to try IntelliJ and installed Oracle JDK, but it seems to interact poorly with Eclipse.
If you launch Eclipse using Oracle Java 7, an error occurs. When I checked the log, I found entries like the following. It looked as though SWT could not be loaded.
eclipse.buildId=I20110613-1736 java.version=1.7.0_07 java.vendor=Oracle Corporation BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2012-10-13 15:40:35.418 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK 1 java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons: no swt-gtk-3740 in java.library.path no swt-gtk in java.library.path Can't load library: /home/daisuke/.swt/lib/linux/x86/libswt-gtk-3740.so Can't load library: /home/daisuke/.swt/lib/linux/x86/libswt-gtk.so
The solution seems to be switching the JRE back to an OpenJDK one. Run the command below from a terminal and change it.
$ sudo update-alternatives --config java There are 3 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).
Selection Path Priority Status
- 0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java 1062 auto mode 1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java 1061 manual mode 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java 1051 manual mode 3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java 1062 manual mode
Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: