64-bit Eclipse 3.7?

[Jamil]

I have the 64-bit edition of Eclipse installed. The oXygen plug-in currently does not install under it via the Eclipse Install New Software method. I know oXygen is not 64-bit, but does it have to be to be installed under this version of Eclipse?

The specific error I see is:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software currently installed: Shared profile 1.0.0.1308118925849 (SharedProfile_epp.package.java 1.0.0.1308118925849)
Missing requirement: Shared profile 1.0.0.1308118925849 (SharedProfile_epp.package.java 1.0.0.1308118925849) requires 'org.maven.ide.eclipse [1.0.0.20110607-2117]' but it could not be found

Thanks.

[adrian]

Hello,

The Eclipse plugin of Oxygen is not 32 or 64-bit specific, it will work with either architecture of Eclipse. The problem lies elsewhere.

The error you are receiving is unrelated to Oxygen or its requirements. It seems you have another plugin that requires Maven to be installed. Try to install Maven to satisfy the dependency for that plugin.

Also, when starting Eclipse, use the '-clean' parameter to ensure that the plugins are purged.

If all else fails, install a fresh Eclipse and deploy Oxygen there.

Regards,
Adrian

[Jamil]

I have found that you are correct. Whatever the issue is it is related to 64-bit Eclipse Indigo in general and not oXygen. I receive this same error when attempting to install any new software under Eclipse.

-clean has not helped. Also, I deleted the eclipse folder, re-downloaded eclipse-java-indigo-win32-x86_64.zip extracing all files to my C: drive. I launched it and get the same error attempting to install the oXygen plugin. When I click Help|Check for Updates, I see No updates were found.

There is no such issue for 32-bit Eclipse, but 64-bit has issues.

I will look more into this later.

[Jamil]

Issue resolved. It's a misleading and bogus error message.

The reason I got the failure is my 64-bit machine runs Windows 7. The solution is to run eclipse.exe as administrator. Eclipse requires elevation for plug-in installation.

[adrian]

Hi,

Actually, elevation shouldn't be necessary, unless you've installed/unpacked Eclipse in Program Files.

Regards,
Adrian

PS:
I forgot about the workspace, the Eclipse workspace should also be in an accessible location where you have write access with the logged on user.