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eclipseeclipse-kepler
peter
peter

Reputation: 563

Error while updating Eclipse

I get an error while trying to update Eclipse (Kepler Service Release 1; Build id: 20130919-0819)

Eclipse wants to update the following package:

An error occurred while uninstalling

session context was:(profile=epp.package.standard, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Uninstall, operand=[R]org.eclipse.rcp.configuration_root.win32.win32.x86 1.0.0.v20130521-1847 --> null, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.CleanupzipAction).

Backup of file E:\Program Files (x86)\eclipse\eclipse.exe failed.

Can not remove : E:\Program Files (x86)\eclipse\eclipse.exe

This error also occurs when I try to update as administrator.

Does anybody have any idea what would cause this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6150

Answers (2)

L. G.
L. G.

Reputation: 9761

Solution extracted from this forum http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/487240/:

  1. Run eclipse
  2. Rename eclipse exe to eclipse.exe.back
  3. Run updates
  4. Updates executed successfully

It worked for me. See Eclipse kepler can't install updates.

Upvotes: 8

Saif Asif
Saif Asif

Reputation: 5668

The eclipse update feature seems to mess up a lot of times with broken dependencies and missing configurations.

You can fix them all up manually if you would like to but that would take some time to debug what is wrong and then how to fix it.

The best advise I can give you is to download a fresh copy of the required Eclipse version and then import your workspace in this new Eclipse installation

Upvotes: 5

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