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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 19552

Can not install eclim

Has anyone used eclim? I wanted to try it out and I use vim as my primary editor so I want to run it as a headless instance. Anyway I installed it via the Unattended (automated) install $ java \ -Dvim.files=$HOME/.vim \ -Declipse.home=/opt/eclipse \ -jar eclim_2.4.0.jar install

I had already downloaded eclipse luna and I have jdk 7 installed (but I don't know if it is part of the environment variables) and I ended up with: 

2014-08-30 10:37:40,569 INFO  [ANT] [eclim:unattended] Finished analyzing your eclipse installation.
2014-08-30 10:37:40,572 ERROR [ANT] 
jar:file:/home/jim/Downloads/eclim_2.4.0.jar!/installer.xml:119: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:116)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
        at org.formic.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:232)
        at org.formic.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:81)
        at org.formic.ant.Main.main(Main.java:63)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.run(Boot.java:306)
        at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.main(Boot.java:159)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.formic.Installer.getString(Installer.java:201)
        at org.eclim.installer.step.FeatureProvider.getFeatures(FeatureProvider.java:99)
        at org.eclim.installer.ant.UnattendedInstallTask.execute(UnattendedInstallTask.java:73)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        ... 16 more
2014-08-30 10:37:40,582 DEBUG [ANT] 
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 19 seconds
java.lang.NullPointerException

So I have no idea what happened. But I can not find eclimd anywhere in my system

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1826

Answers (2)

Marton
Marton

Reputation: 113

I had the same issue. I followed the instructions to build from the source code and that worked for me.

I checked out the master branch from the Git repository and used ant to build and install eclim. At the time of this writing that resulted in version 2.4.0.11-ge560abe getting installed without errors. Running eclimd and then :PingEclim and :EclimValidate from vim reported that everything is fine.

Note that eclimd dumped an exception on startup:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to aquire PluginConverter service during generation for: /home/pappmar/dev/eclipse/plugins/org.eclim.installer_2.4.0.11-ge560abe.jar

I don't know if that's a problem or not. It seems to be running all the same.

Upvotes: 0

ben
ben

Reputation: 6023

/opt is owned by root per default. My guess is that it indeed is in your setup and since eclim needs to write to /opt/eclipse during installation it results in an error. Try changing ownership of /opt/eclipse using the -R option or run the installation as root. Note though that using $HOME will then probably not lead to the desired result.

Upvotes: 1

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