Eclipse 'Installing Software' - chmod failed

Question

I'm new to Java and Eclipse and I'm not sure what this error message means:

*An error occurred while installing the items session context was:

(profile=epp.package.java, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null --> [R]com.sap.ide.support.feature_root.gtk.linux.x86_64 1.11.1, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.ChmodAction). The action chmod failed - file /opt/eclipse/collectSupportInformation.sh does not exist*

This happened while I was trying to install a ui tool. I've used Help->Install New Software before and it worked just fine then but now I'm getting this error no matter what I'm trying to install (I tried several different tools). What am I supposed to do?

I'm using Eclipse Luna on Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

I was having this issue on my mac. I got it working by moving the Eclipse app to the Applications folder (I was running it from Downloads).

Answer 2

Try the below steps:-

1) Restart your eclipse by using clean flag -> ./eclipse -clean
2) Turn off usage data collection by going to preference->usage data collection-> turn off
3) make sure the user who is running eclipse having read write permission to dir /opt/eclipse, or just execute the command chmod -R 777 /opt/eclipse (Once problem is resolved you can again change the proper mode, 777 is just for trying to fix the issue).

Hope it will help you to resolve the issue.Please update if you facing any issue to follow the above steps.

Answer 3

我有类似的东西，但在Windows 8.1下，修复是关闭Eclipse IDE，然后“以管理员身份运行”，然后运行更新！

Answer 4

尝试通过eclipse.org直接链接而不是通过安装程序下载完整包。

Answer 5

I had the same problem when I was "opening with Archiver" instead of saving first to disk. If first I save the tar.gz to disk, then untar it and run the eclipse-inst, all is fine