I'm running Eclipse under a Windows 7, 64-bit installation on which I have administrator privileges.
Since I first installed Eclipse many months ago, I've been able to keep it up to date with the Help > Check for Updates function—but starting a couple of weeks ago, it gave the message
Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.
Even when I ran Eclipse as an administrator, I continued to get this message. How can I fix it?
For anyone using Linux: I had this problem in Ubuntu because I had installed Eclipse in /opt, which was owned by root.
To get the updates, simply run Eclipse as root and then select the Help -> Check for Updates again. In general running applications as root is not a good idea, but if it's just to do an update... well that's what the root account is for :)
cd /opt/eclipse
sudo ./eclipse
Another (simpler?) approach which worked for me is to simply give the group "Users" write permission on C:\Program Files (x86)\eclipse.
Now, this is a security consideration, but you're NOT granting access to the whole of C:\Program Files (x86), just the eclipse installation.
I found a workaround for this stupid bug in Eclipse. Selecting updates one-by-one is disabled, but if you click Select all and then deselect the ones you do not need, you can proceed.
In Windows another option is to set the "Run as administrator" property on the Eclipse shortcut that you're using to start Eclipse. Right click on the shortcut and choose "Properties" from the dropdown menu. Click on the "Shortcut" tab in the Properties dialog and then click on the "Advanced..." button. In the Advanced Properties dialog set the "Run as administrator" option.
Hit same problem on Macos sierra 10.12.3 after clean install of Eclipse JEE Neon R. A clue was that my mac showed a dialog when I launched the app that asked:
“Eclipse.app” is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?
When the updater dialog box showed "Insufficient access privileges to apply this update" I checked the Eclipse.app directory (I had downloaded & unpacked the .tar.gz file, if that matters) and saw this:
drwxrwxr-x# 3 chris staff 102 Jun 13 2016 Eclipse.app
I examined the extended attribute and saw this:
$ xattr Eclipse.app
com.apple.quarantine
That quarantine attribute seems to block the Eclipse updater! I removed that extended attribute like this:
xattr -d -r Eclipse.app
After that Eclipse updated itself very happily. HTH
For Linux Distros, most personal apps for all users are installed in the /opt/ folder. This folder is owned by root. My solution which has been tested to work is simply to open the opt folder in terminal call 'ls' to make sure you see the 'eclipse' folder in your current directory. It may be inside another folder.
Then simply use this command replacing 'user' with your username.
sudo chown -R user:user eclipse/
and that's it. Of course only you will be able to run updates on eclipse but I imagine you are the primary user of the computer.
Solving the problem was a multi-step process for me:
In a thread on another forum I found the advice that Eclipse should not be installed in C:\Program Files (x86). I had indeed installed (unzipped) it into that folder, so I moved it as advised to C:\Users\....
When I loaded Eclipse in its new location, I got a different message when I attempted to scan for updates: "There are no update sites to search".
I temporarily re-established my installation in C:\Program Files (x86), loaded it, and used Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites > [select all] > Export... to create an .xml file with my software sites.
Back in the C:\Users\... installation, I used the the same menu command (except Import instead of Export) to pull in the contents of that .xml file.
Now Help > Check for Updates is again functioning as it used to.
I fixed this problem (windows) by re-opening eclipse by right-clicking the eclipse.exe and selecting "Run as administrator".
Not sure why this step was needed all of the sudden but it worked. After my upgrade (I upgraded from eclipse sdk 4.3 -> 4.4) it still lets me make updates without running as administrator.
From Powershell, I set permissions on the folder like so:
& icacls "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\eclipse-java-neon\eclipse" "/grant" "domain\user:(OI)(CI)F" "/T"
Note: I had a different install location, as I used chocolatey to install eclipse
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I installed Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) yesterday and since then I am not able to start my Eclipse. I am attaching a screenshot of the message I see.
Is there a workaround for this?
I found a solution in Fix the “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” Error in Mac OS X.
It's because of the Security options.
Go to System Preferences... > Security & Privacy and there should be a button saying Open Anyway, under the General tab.
You can avoid doing this by changing the options under Allow apps downloaded from:, however I would recommend keeping it at the default Mac App Store and identified developers.
An easier way to open a document from an unidentified developer, if you know it's safe, is to control-click on the file icon and then select "Open." You will then be given the option of opening it regardless of its unidentified source.
Right-click (or control-click) the application in question and choose "Open"
In terminal type the command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine [file path here]
Once you click enter it will no longer have that problem. Its annoying that apple adds a quarantine to files automatically. I do not know how to turn this off but there probably is a way...
You can also use the xattr command as in Stack Overflow question How do I remove the "extended attributes" on a file in Mac OS X?.
Just remove the com.apple.quarantine attribute. It works even if you don't have an administrator account, which can be a plus. After that, the app isn't considered "downloaded" and is therefore not blocked.
It is prohibiting the opening of Eclipse app because it was not registered with Apple by an identified developer. This is a security feature, however, you can override the security setting and open the app by doing the following:
Locate the Eclipse.app (eclipse/Eclipse.app) in Finder. (Make sure you use Finder so that you can perform the subsequent steps.)
Press the Control key and then click the Eclipse.app icon.
Choose Open from the shortcut menu.
Click the Open button when the alert window appears.
The last step will add an exception for Eclipse to your security settings and now you will be able to open it without any warnings.
Note, these steps work for other *.app apps that may encounter the same issue.
you can modify the gatekeeper settings by running the following command
To disable to allow apps from anywhere to be installed use the following command in terminal ::
sudo spctl --master-disable
To re-enable use the following command
sudo spctl --master-enable
I had the same problem, Eclipse would not start. Found this link and it worked like a charm:
Can't click Menu Bar Items in Eclipse
Java is messed-up on Maverick, need to download and install from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Control Click the application in the Applications folder, not lauchpad. Choose open and then you get an options to actually open it.
Right click > Open.
Or, you can go into System Preferences, Security & Privacy, and set the restrictions on opening apps there.
I had got the same error.
Because of security reasons, I could not see option for allowing Apps downloaded from Anywhere in System preference-> Security Tab.
I removed the extended attribute from Zip file by below command.
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine [Zip file path]
And then got below error:-
org.eclipse.e4.core.di.InjectionException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/annotation/PostConstruct
Resolved it by uninstalling all different versions of java and installed just 1.8.0_231.
Worked finally.
In your terminal, simply run
sudo spctl --master-disable
in order to allow apps be downloaded from any developer
Open terminal, go to extracted folder of eclipse and run the following command:
./eclipse -clean
Terminal type:
Last login: Thu Dec 20 08:28:43 on console
~ sudo spctl --master-disable
Password:
~ spctl --status
assessments disabled
~
System Preferences->Security & Privacy
Open Terminal, Go to the eclipse folder, Run ./eclipse
Try looking into Gatekeeper. I am not sure of too much Mac stuff, but I heard that you can enable it in there.
I followed this installation guide:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh301122.aspx
On some computers, all went well. But on some, the team explorer window is missing.
I can't find it even in: Window->Show view->Other. In fact there is no trace of TFS anywhere in eclipse (it does not appear at preferences under team). But it's listed in installed software.
All computers have Ubunto 12.04 LTS and eclipse 3.7.2 with eclipse cdt.
Check if you have Version Control (Team).
I recently installed Eclipse 4.20,
and I am thinking that the Team menu name was changed to Version Control (Team)
(Team -> Version Control (Team)).
the solution apparently is to open eclipse with sudo and then start the installation.
some permission problem that wasn't notified by the installation.
it may happen for permissions issue, you did not have enough permissions to the location where eclipse is installed so the installation of TEE failed.
I was experiencing the same issue. MSDN's site states: Team Explorer Everywhere is designed to be run as a non-root user on computers that are running Unix.
I was finally able to fix my issue by running the command below:
sudo chown -R user:user /usr/lib/eclipse/ /usr/share/eclipse/
I just downloaded Eclipse IDE and Netbeans directly from the websites and installed then in my Ubuntu 12.04. I have some questions:
1 - How can I add their shortcuts in the Ubuntu's sidebar?
2 - When I add shortcuts in desktop using the gnome-desktop-item-edit app, I can't have super user permissions to manipulate then, the Netbeans IDE (that uses a script file to start) shows lots of erros telling that some files are read-only. How can I add sudo privileges in a launcher created with gnome-desktop-item-edit?
Sorry by my poor english.
As far as question #1, first, open the program. Find its icon on the side bar, and right-click it, then select “Keep in Launcher.”
As for #2, in Ubuntu, you can edit the item to run with gksudo COMMAND, but that's extremely unwise (running anything with elevated privileges on the desktop. You should probably instead fix the permissions of the relevant files (right-click on the file, and give yourself permission)
Well, after some days trying to find the better solution for my problem, I think that the better solution is first, Download Eclipse and/or NetBeans IDE from the Ubuntu Software Center and after:
For NetBeans:
Use the IDE's plugin's manager to download the needed ones, and make (if you want) an IDE update process.
For Eclipse:
After download, follow the steps of this link.
After follow this, you can easely create favorite links to your "sidebar" if you use Gnome 3 as me, or make desktop shortcuts without needing sudo privileges, just using the gnome-desktop-item-edit tool or whatever you prefer.
I am trying to install new software within Eclipse the C++ version. Help -> install new software. When I go to install new software, it hangs or takes hours to move a percentage.
I have read that this is a known bug in JRE7, which I am assuming I am using since I have it installed. I changed to JRE6 by changing the eclipse.ini file with the argument -vm XXXX where XXXX is the path to my javaw.exe.
It does not seem to have changed anything.
Ideas?
Thanks.
Finally it worked for me only by unchecking Contact all update sites during install to find required software. From what I'm seeing it might be a Mac issue, on Windows and Linux it worked without any change.
You can get rid of this problem by simply disabling your Firewall software before installing new plugin. If your Antivirus has built-in Firewall, you need to disable it.
Optionally, to reduce the update time, you can uncheck Contact all update sites during install to find required software, see my blog post for details.
I've found it helps by adding this line to the eclipse.ini file:
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
To install new plugin into eclipse, you can download plugin installer or go market place to install.
Make sure what SDK you are using and fill the correct path.
Wish you success
To get around this issue, I went to Windows->preferences->general->network settings and typed in each repository manually. I also selected manual from the drop down at the top of the window.
It seems it was also useful to get off of my home network and I had to get on another network.
I kept having this issue and resolved it by following Nitin Kale's fix for Eclipse slowness on fresh 16.04 here> https://askubuntu.com/a/788826
open terminal and type following command
export SWT_GTK3=0 add this to your ~/.profile file to make it
persistent across logins (you'll need to logout and log back in to be
able to start eclipse from shortcut)
then go to your eclipse folder and search for eclipse.ini file Right
click anywhere in the folder and choose "open in terminal" and type
following command in terminal
sudo gedit eclipse.ini and add the following line before
--launcher.appendVmargs
--launcher.GTK_version 2 Search in the file for 256 and replace it with 1024
I had to go to Preferences -> General -> Network Connection and set Active provider to 'direct' as it was 'native' by default. Then it worked fine.
None of above methods worked for me in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Eclipse Mars. Had to do following
Go to "Preferences"->"Install/Update"->"Available Software Sites" and uncheck all except "Mars".
After this install worked in a jiffy.
I solved my issue by following all steps in above answers
Window -> Prefrerences -> Install/Update -> Available Software Sites and then uncheck all except Your package name ( neon, mars ).
Window -> Prefrerences -> General -> Network Connections and set Active provider to "manual".
Help -> Install new Software -> uncheck "contact all update sites during install".
If anyone is still having this issue simply go to windows defender and add the installation app as an exception.
I'm having a problem with eclipse galileo on ubuntu 64-bit system. when ever i open it the splash scree turns gray but keeps loading and then when eclipse opens it shows the secure storage password request and hangs. I dont know what could be wrong, it used to work fine before, if you have or had the same problem please tell me what to do
I have had this happen on Galileo (3.5) and Helios (3.6).
If you delete .eclipse you will lose all software installed through the Help | Install New Software menu option.
It is enough to delete the file ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security/secure_storage
Try clean $HOME$/.eclipse directory.
Its better to just rename at first.
See what happens
This happens to me whenever I shutdown eclipse with the history tab open.
While not the best solution, to solve it I start eclipse with sudo. I let it finish loading, then select a different tab than history. I Shutdown eclipse, then I recursively change the owner of the files in .metadata back to my main user.
In case you need the command: (in my case I run this from /home/wally/workspace)
sudo chown -R wally:wally .metadata
As far as I can tell, there's some race condition going on.
(also, it's likely that you won't use exactly "wally:wally" but "your username:your group)
Try this:
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
then run eclipse from command line from the same terminal window.
I would suggest removing openjdk from synaptic and install sun java. Once you do that , use "sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun" to use sun-java as the default JRE.
Eclipse used to work really slow for me, and this method worked. Maybe it helps you too.