[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Install failure

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I recently discovered the Eclipse platform after learning and now 
> starting to use Aptana for my website work.  I downloaded the Eclipse 
> package - upon installation, the welcome screen appeared and I headed to 
> the tutorials to become acquainted with Eclipse.  When the workbench 
> opened, I got error messages regarding the Resource Perspective. 
> I thought I may have had a corrupt download, so I downloaded the package 
> again, this time from one of the resources that bundles things together 
> - Yoxos.  This install was worse, the welcome screen could not load and 
> listed out several error messages.
>
> I am running an older machine - Pentium III 600hz with 512 memory
>
> Eclipse distribution is the current release 3.2.2
> I started out with JRE 1.4.2.  After the first failed install, I bumped 
> up to the Java SDK install.
>
> Is there a minimum spec for the machine?  After the first install 
> failure, I could not find any way to uninstall Eclipse, I just deleted 
> the folder and its contents.  Is there a proper way to uninstall Eclipse 
> so a "fresh" version can be installed?  Should I have uninstalled the 
> JRE before installed tha Java SDK?

It sounds like there may be a problem with the JVM(s) on your machine. 
Find the file .metadata/.log in your workspace and see if there are any 
further details there. Look first at the JVM version that Eclipse is 
using - it may not necessarily be what you had "installed."

Uninstalling Eclipse is just a matter of deleting its installation 
directory - there is nothing else to do.

In the future, the exact error messages will help track down problems. 
For now, you should get a lot of details from the .log file - post the 
interesting parts and see if that gets you somewhere.

Hope this helps,
	Eric