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rbaleksandar
rbaleksandar

Reputation: 9691

Getting "Unable to make member of class sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl" when installing PyDev in Eclipse Neon

I've just installed an Xubuntu 16.04 64bit virtual machine in VirtualBox. I used the Eclipse Neon Installer and picked the CDT edition.

Right after I started Eclipse I also tried to install the PyDev from the Marketplace. Right after the dialog window where you select which sub-components you want to install (for example Mylyn integration) I got

Unable to read repository at http://www.pydev.org/updates/content.xml. Unable to make member of class sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl accessible: module java.base does not export sun.security.ssl to unnamed module @7098b8f8

The underlying JDK is OpenJDK 9 (from the official repositories) and I have also tried switching to OpenJDK 8 (using sudo update-alternatives --config java and selecting the 8th version) with the same poor result. In addition I also have successfully installed PyDev in another machine that is using Xubuntu 16.10 (same architecture).

I was unable to find any hint on what's going on.

EDIT: Updating Eclipse works (I've just updated CDT which for whatever reason was not the latest version).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 676

Answers (1)

Don Kirkby
Don Kirkby

Reputation: 56650

I guess there's something wrong with the regular site. Perhaps because Source Forge switched to Let's Encrypt.

The best solution I found was to install PyDev from a zip file.

  1. Download the PyDev zip file from Source Forge.
  2. Unzip it, and copy the contents into Eclipse's dropins folder.
  3. Restart Eclipse.

I wasn't sure exactly where the files were supposed to go, so here's the folder layout that worked for me:

  • eclipse
    • dropins
      • Eclipse X.Y.Z
        • features
          • many folders
        • plugins
          • many folders

Before I got that working, I found another option on this question: use an AWS mirror for the PyDev update site. Unfortunately, the AWS mirror has an old version of PyDev.

Upvotes: 0

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