[SOLVED] .desktop file dont want to start eclipse lxde debian9 32bit

floppy_stuttgart · 05-14-2020, 05:32 AM

Hello,
I have installed eclipse on debian9 32 bit lxde.
It starts with terminal command, standard user,

Quote:

/root/eclipse/scout-2018-09/eclipse/eclipse

I have created an icon file called eclipse.desktop on the Desktop area. See below. I see the icon on the desktop.

With a double click on the icon at the desktop, the failure which appear is

Quote:

Ungültige .desktop-Datei: '/home/family/Schreibtisch/eclipse.desktop'

=

Quote:

invalid desktop file

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eclipse dont start.

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Eclipse 
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/root/eclipse/scout-2018-09/eclipse/eclipse 
Icon=/home/family/icon.xpm
StartupNotify=true

Any advice and help is welcome what should be done in order to make that shortcut working.

Turbocapitalist · 05-14-2020, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by floppy_stuttgart

It starts with terminal command, standard user,
/root/eclipse/scout-2018-09/eclipse/eclipse

The standard, unprivileged accounts do not have access to root's home directory nor should they. Also, graphical programs should not be run as root. So if that path works from the terminal, then something is very wrong.

Your .desktop file should have something more like the following:

Code:

Exec=/usr/bin/eclipse

So check the output of the following lines.

Code:

which eclipse

If it shows nothing, then the installation of Eclipse went wrong.

shruggy · 05-14-2020, 05:59 AM

Sorry, discard this. Turbocaptalist already gave you all the relevant infos.

floppy_stuttgart · 05-14-2020, 12:38 PM

ok. It seems my diagnosis was wrong: it starts only with root user.
I re-installed under "root" user, with the eclipse installer

Quote:

./eclipse-inst

and gave following directory in the installation GUI

Quote:

/usr/bin

later changed the exec rights with

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chmod 0777 /usr/bin/eclipse/scout-2018-092/eclipse/eclipse

then including the link above into the .desktop file.
By clicking the icon now, it show following error

Quote:

Eclipse
The eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its
companion shared library.

Any idea how to solve? any help is welcome.

shruggy · 05-14-2020, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by floppy_stuttgart

I re-installed in /usr/bin (not /root/ as previously).

The right way would be to install it from the Debian repository:

Code:

sudo apt-get install eclipse

On Debian Stretch, this will install Eclipse 3.8.1.

If you insist on installing the latest version from a tarball, then install it under /opt and make a symbolic link to /opt/eclipse/scout-2018-092/eclipse/eclipse in /usr/local/bin.

floppy_stuttgart · 05-14-2020, 02:35 PM

I installed the file R from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/pa...ease/2018-09/r
according https://www.tecmint.com/install-ecli...ubuntu-debian/
(not with the installer like indicated there https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse because I need a very new version of eclipse; not the debian standard one).
Looks promising till now (installed, it starts.. few things not working but I will get it).