Ran into an inability to configure subclipse with eclipse on my Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) with Apache2 and Subversion.

Read a post that some dependencies were missing in the eclipse>ubuntu>respositories and that I should try downloading eclipse direct from tigris > and then upgrade software packages from their site. (Anyone else have/had this problem?)

Downloaded the elcipse tar.gz file and - UNFORTUNATELY - unpacked it in the wrong directory. Thought I could simply remove that directory (sudo rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty directoryname) but it does not delete even though no error.

Read a post to check if the directory is mounted (df -h directoryname) and sure enough it is: Tried to umount the directory (umount /home/directoryname) and I get this response:
umount: /home/directoryname is not mounted (according to mtab)

Cannot un-mount and cannot delete the directory (in order to upack the tar.gz again - correctly).

Any thoughts?

Your directory isn't mounted, it's on a mounted filesystem (as all of them are by definition). Specifically, it's on your root partition ("/")

--ignore-fail-on-non-empty means almost exactly the opposite of what you think it does. rmdir cannot delete a folder with stuff in it. Normally, it complains when you try to make it do so. This merely suppresses the error message.

you want:
Be extra careful with this command. It will recursively delete everything in a folder. It's the machine gun of file deletion. Since it's an actual deletion, it is nearly impossible to undo.

I don't know about your eclipse/subversion problem. Sorry.

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Perfect advice. Thank you.

You're welcome