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Bug 357778

Summary:	missing Window Builder component
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	stefano casadei <scasadei>
Component:	WindowBuilder	Assignee:	Mark Russell <mrrussell>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bernhard.hobiger, clayberg, mrrussell, remy.suen, scasadei, shaikh.tariqnawaz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description stefano casadei

2011-09-15 07:10:30 EDT

Build Identifier: Indigo Service Release 1 Build id: 20110909-0630

When installing Window Builder I get the following error message:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: SWT Designer Core 1.1.0.r37x201109091134 (org.eclipse.wb.swt.feature.feature.group 1.1.0.r37x201109091134)
  Missing requirement: SWT Designer Core 1.1.0.r37x201109091134 (org.eclipse.wb.swt.feature.feature.group 1.1.0.r37x201109091134) requires 'org.eclipse.pde.feature.group 3.2.0' but it could not be found

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install indigo SR1-RC3 (java developer)
2. attempt to use Window Builder
3. ...or install the SWT Designer

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-09-15 08:02:07 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. install indigo SR1-RC3 (java developer)

Where did you get this EPP build?

Comment 2 stefano casadei

2011-09-15 08:16:57 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > 1. install indigo SR1-RC3 (java developer)
> 
> Where did you get this EPP build?

From here:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php?release=indigo

Comment 3 Remy Suen

2011-09-15 08:29:15 EDT

With eclipse-java-indigo-SR1-RC3-win32.zip I was able to get to the license selection screen after selecting 'SWT Designer' and 'SWT Designer Core' as plug-ins to install.

Comment 4 stefano casadei

2011-09-15 13:35:19 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> With eclipse-java-indigo-SR1-RC3-win32.zip I was able to get to the license
> selection screen after selecting 'SWT Designer' and 'SWT Designer Core' as
> plug-ins to install.

I am using a different zip file (the 64 bit version):
eclipse-java-indigo-SR1-RC3-win32-x86_64.zip
and I am getting the error above....

Comment 5 Eric Clayberg

2011-09-16 09:36:31 EDT

Try installing the Eclipse PDE first.

Comment 6 Mark Russell

2011-09-16 11:09:09 EDT

I have successfully used Window builder under 64 bit Linux.  I was also able to install SWT builder.  I see you are using windows 7 is that 64 or 32 bit?

I'm going to get access to a windows machine to continue testing.

Comment 7 Mark Russell

2011-09-16 11:49:15 EDT

I installed this on Windows 7 32 bit and everything works fine.  I'm going to try 64 bit Windows 7

Comment 8 Mark Russell

2011-09-16 12:28:00 EDT

It Worked fine on Windows 7 64 bit. 

I can't reproduce this.

Comment 9 Eric Clayberg

2011-09-16 12:38:21 EDT

Referenced "missing" component is standard part of Eclipse, not WindowBuilder.

Comment 10 Bernhard Hobiger

2011-12-12 08:24:32 EST

For the sake of everybody who lands here with the same problem:

This happens reproducibly when Eclipse is installed into a directory protected by Windows 7 UAC (User Account Control). Eclipse cant find its own software repository and installations are virtually impossible.

Solution: Start Eclipse by right clicking eclipse.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator" (or something like that - I use W7 German). Note that simlpy working with an administrator account is not enough.

To WB team: A note about this in http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/javadevtools/download-wbpro.html would be nice.

Comment 11 Eric Clayberg

2011-12-12 09:35:18 EST

What about this makes it a WindowBuilder issue and not a general Eclipse issue affecting all plugins? There are numerous possible failure modes for the Eclipse update manager (unrelated to WB), and I don't know that we want to try and research and list them all. Do any other plugins mention this as a specific case in their installation instructions?

Comment 12 Bernhard Hobiger

2011-12-12 09:45:40 EST

Nothing makes it a WB issue and I dont know whether other plugings mention it in their docs. But since the failure happens when you try to install WB it can be easily mistaken for a WB error. I added my comment simply because googeling the error message led me straight here and thus finding the solution here would have helped me a lot. But if you think that my comment is misplaced feel free to delete it.