Ulu83
Ulu83

Reputation: 563

PyDev Perspective not showing after Install on Eclipse 3.8

Running ubuntu 16.04. Oracle Java 8 installed, OpenJDK uninstalled.

Installed Eclipse 4.2 and PyDev would work OK, but after 2nd start of eclipse, menus won't be clickable anymore.

So I reverted my manual installation of Eclipse 4.2 to Eclipse 3.8, which is available via apt-get install eclipse-platform in the Ubuntu repositories. Installed PyDev via http://pydev.org/updates .

PyDev Perspective won't show up. Trying to re-install PyDev will be blocked by Eclipse because it is already installed. Trying to click File --> New --> PyDev Project doesn't exist, either.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 3293

Answers (1)

Fabio Zadrozny
Fabio Zadrozny

Reputation: 25362

I looked more into this issue and unfortunately, it seems that PyDev really is no longer able to work with Eclipse 3.8. The reason is that Eclipse 3.8 isn't forward-compatible regarding java, so, it doesn't recognize a 'JavaSE-1.8' environment when it's running in Java 8 (and thus, disables PyDev or any plugin which needs Java 8 to run even if Java 8 is required).

This means that the last PyDev version which supports Eclipse 3.8 is PyDev 4.5.5 (so, you have to get that version -- note that you may need to uninstall the 5.x version before -- or you have to update to a newer Eclipse -- i.e.: one that knows how to recognize Java 8).

The update site for PyDev 4.5.5 is http://www.pydev.org/update_sites/4.5.5 -- I'll update the homepage to signal that properly.

Upvotes: 1

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