Eclipse and java

[Compugreen]

Good evening

I'm quite new to linux. I'm working on a 64 bit linux fedora 6. I've installed Eclipse using a package. I also installed java 1.5 64 bit; it seems to be installed in /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_13.

When I type 'eclipse' in a terminal and press enter, there comes a messagebox saying:

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A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine
was found after searching the following locations:
/usr/share/eclipse/jre/bin/java
'java' in your current PATH
*******************

I was wondering how i could tell eclipse where to find java.

Greets and thanks

[Thrillhouse]

It would be easier for you to use the pre-packaged Java/Eclipse program. It's a project called Fedora Eclipse and you can install it by running:

yum install eclipse-pde-devel eclipse-jdt

If you would like the C/C++ development plugin, run:

yum install eclipse-cdt

Hope that works for you.

[Compugreen]

Hello

I did what you said. The install process seamed to work fine.
But when i try to launch eclipse, it now says the message below. I tried to resolve this by: ln -s /usr/bin/eclipse /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse ; but i see no change; it still gives the same error.

I hope y can help me
(ps: 64bit os!)



Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from startup.jar

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/java
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-launcher /usr/bin/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 230017
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar startup.jar

[Compugreen]

i even doubt if eclipse is really installed, cause
usr/lib/eclipse does not exist
usr/lib64/eclipse exists but contains only some files and some jars