pydev not in Eclipse perspecitive list

Question

I am having the apparently common problem of PyDev not showing up in the perspective list after install. After trying all the various suggested solutions without success, I don't know what to do next and need some help. I installed PyDev version 5 on Eclipse version 4.2.2 with JRE 1.8.0_73-b02. TIA.

Answer 1

I got this fixed by editing the eclipse.ini to use java-8

this line -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin

to this -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin

I guess there is some other ways too to update eclipse configuration with java versions.