First, understand that while I have programmed computers, running various
flavours of DOS, Windows and OS/2, and have occassionally used a couple
different flavours of Unix, I have never administered or configured a unix
machine.
I now have a new Acer notebook on which I have installed SUSE Linux v 10
(the 64 bit version). I have not seen any problems I couldn't deal with
except for one I am now encountering with eclipse.
SUSE Linux appears to come with a very recent version of eclipse (version
3.1.2 I believe).
I get an error when I try to start it (eclipse). When I open the log in
root/.eclipse/.metadata, I see two errors (and a trace) related to
libswt-pi-gtk-3138.so that say this file could not be opened because it
doesn't exist.
I have, so far, done nothing to eclipse, so what is there is what was put
there by YaST. When I did the install using YaST, I told it to install
ALL of the development tools. I am, after all, a software developer used
to using a wide variety of tools (but mostly my experience configuring
them is on Windows, W2K and XP, and OS/2), and intended to use this
machine for development and to learn more about developing Linux programs.
I need a little help getting started with getting my Linux development
environment configured. I still haven't found most of the documentation
for the various applications I had installed, so I am working blind! I
would have RTFM by now if I could have found it!
Bearing in mind I am still trying to learn my way around Linux, I need
help first to solve this problem starting eclipse on Linux. Then I will
need a little guidance in setting eclipse up to work with the other tools
I hope to use (e.g., the gcc suite of compilers, including especially the
C++ and fortran compilers in addition to Java). I see several debuggers
and profilers have been installed. Can any, or all, of them be integrated
with eclipse? What about the glade interface designer?
I had the aegis version control program installed. How would I set up
eclipse to work nicely with it; automagically checking files in and out of
the archive, and possibly even managing the archive?
BTW, as an aside, emacs seems to work fine, but I need similar guidance in
configuring IT to deal with the same issues I'm presently facing WRT
configuring eclipse!