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Bug 41746 - Installation problem if "/usr/local/eclipse" is not writeable
Summary: Installation problem if "/usr/local/eclipse" is not writeable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 32026
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Resources (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 minor (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2003-08-20 14:09 EDT by Cyrille Artho CLA
Modified: 2003-08-21 12:06 EDT (History)
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Description Cyrille Artho CLA 2003-08-20 14:09:38 EDT 
A typical Unix installation would install Eclipse under "/usr/local/eclipse"
with no user permissions to write into these directories. But of course Eclipse
needs to create "/usr/local/eclipse/workspace".

If this directory is not writeable for "mere mortal" users, Eclipse installation
fails upon the first startup. Then, an error message that a problem occurred
during installation is shown. It refers to the log file in the .metadata
directory, which could of course not be created in the first place.

So there should be a different special dialog box to deal with that case.
Comment 1 Rafael Chaves CLA 2003-08-21 12:06:08 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32026 ***