Re: RBD install breaks MyEclipse

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

I'd have to run the installer again and I don't have the DVD with me at 
the moment.  But, there is an option to install "stand alone" or "all in 
one" where it installs an eclipse instance AND the J9 JVM (which adds 
some capabilities) - I am sorry I can't remember the option name or have 
a screen shot.  I looked at the online documentation but it isn't much 
help.  The bottom line is that you can install RBD to use an existing 
eclipse installation OR have RBD install an eclipse instance as part of 
the install. I started with the former and then backed up and took the 
latter.  That instance is located here: "C:\Program 
Files\IBM\SDP\eclipse.exe".  It looks like the installer changed up the 
eclipse.ini  in C:\eclipse\ to be RBD specific before I "backed up".  I 
posted in the MyEclipse forum to see if someone had a "vanilla" 
eclipse.ini I could look at so that I could at least start MyEclipse 
again.  I am close to getting it running again.

At minimum, you'd think RBD would make a backup copy of the eclipse.ini 
file before it changed it.  Maybe it did and I just can't find it....

Pete


MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Where did you tell it to install "stand alone"?  If you installed to 
> C:\Eclipse, it's writing over the top of your MyEclipse install.  I 
> haven't tried exactly the same setup as you, but I have successfully 
> installed RBD separately from other Eclipse-based installations.
>
> egl-i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/18/2009 01:00:03 PM:
>
>   
> > date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:42 -0700
> > from: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: [EGL-i] RBD install breaks MyEclipse
> >
> > Interesting issue.
> >
> > I had installed Eclipse 3.4.1 some time ago with the hope that I could 
> > get an Eclipse shared install for Aptana Studio, MyEclipse, RBD and RDi 
> > (yeah, I know, good luck!)
> >
> > Aptana and MyEclipse were happily co-existing when I went ahead to 
> > install RBD, taking the option to use an existing Eclipse installation. 
> > A little way into the install, RBD complained about some unresolved link 
> >     
>
>   
> > issue with Aptana and couldn't continue but the "Back" button was still 
> > available so I clicked "back" a few times and got back to the point 
> > where I could choose a "standalone" install of RBD and went ahead and 
> > installed it at that point.  All was well.
> >
> > So imagine my surprise this morning when I started up MyEclipse just to 
> > find out that RBD was now starting instead.  My original 
> > MyEclipse/Aptana install was using C:\Eclipse and I had a shortcut on my 
> >     
>
>   
> > desktop to C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe to start MyEclipse.  That shortcut now 
> >     
>
>   
> > launches RBD (which is a bit weird still it was ultimately installed 
> > stand alone).
> >
> > So the questions are:
> >
> > 1. Why, if the installer allows you to go "Back", does it not uninstall 
> > whatever it has done up to that point?  If it can't do that, why allow 
> > the user to go back?
> > 2. Is there a way to uninstall the RBD version that appears to be using 
> > C:/eclipse?
> > 3. Any other way to recover short of the well known "Microsoft Method" 
> > which is to uninstall everything and reinstall ?
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> >