253658 – Help -> Software Updates not working. Prompting Message "Cannot not launch the Update UI. This installation has not been configured properly for software update"

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Bug 253658 - Help -> Software Updates not working. Prompting Message "Cannot not launch the Update UI. This installation has not been configured properly for software update"

Summary: Help -> Software Updates not working. Prompting Message "Cannot not launch th...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250126

Alias:	None

Product:	PDE
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	3.5
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox
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Reported:	2008-11-04 04:28 EST by Vasu Thadaka
Modified:	2008-11-06 01:43 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Vasu Thadaka

2008-11-04 04:28:56 EST

Build ID: 3.4

Steps To Reproduce:
1.Create a plugin project with default values.

Selected "Plug-in with a multi-page editor" as template.

2.Create a feature project with default values.

Added above plugin to this initialize plug-in list.

3.Create a product for above plugin.

Run as "Eclipse Application" with "Run a Product" option by selecting above product.

Eclipse Workbench is lauched. Go to Help->Software update. Prompts for message 
""Cannot not launch the Update UI. This installation has not been configured properly for software update" instead of showing Update UI.



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Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2008-11-04 09:59:38 EST

This is because PDE does not create a profile at launch time.

Comment 2 Darin Wright

2008-11-04 10:04:53 EST

OK, but this is a known limitation... this has never worked as far as I know. So this must be a dup of an existing feature request. Not a blocker.

Comment 3 Curtis Windatt

2008-11-04 10:09:22 EST

Pascal is correct PDE does not yet support p2 self-hosting.  There is no profile for the launched instance so you can't install/edit it.  I will mark this of a dupe of the PDE bug.

If you want the install dialog to open, there is a workaround.  See bug 224658 or
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Running_the_p2_UI_from_a_self-hosted_workbench

If you export your product and run it, or remotely debug it, everything should work fine.  This only affects self-hosting.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 250126 ***

Comment 4 Vasu Thadaka

2008-11-06 01:43:39 EST

Good Morning,

Some more information on issue, issue also exist in the exported product, i.e. when we do "Eclipse Product export wizard" option from product file.

Thanks,
Vasu T