Do not know how to get permission to write eclipse.ini file

Question

Right now I do not have eclipse on my mac. The version of my mac is macos mojave version 10.14.6. I tried to download Eclipse IDE 2018-12 R Packages. It is for Enterprise Java Developers, and the link is here.https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/2018-12/r After i installed. I launched it and I got This is the error message I got So i tried this "1. Open the eclipse.ini file from your eclipse folder,see the picture below.

eclipse.ini

2. Open eclipse.ini in Notepad or any other text-editor application, Find the line -Xmx256m (or -Xmx1024m). Now change the default value 256m (or 1024m) to 512m. You also need to give the exact java installed version (1.6 or 1.7 or other).

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Like This:

-Xmx512m -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 OR

-Xmx512m -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7 OR

-Xmx512m -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8 Then it works well for me. " Eclipse error: 'Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine' I cannot edit this file because it says I do not have access permission. How do I fix that?

Answer 1

Don't put it under /Applications, put it somewhere under your home directory where there won't be permission problems. You shouldn't need to edit the eclipse.ini file, either (it's already set to -Xmx2048m in the current release), but you do need to install a JDK, like one from https://adoptopenjdk.net --preferably version 8 or 11.

BTW, the current version is 2020-06 . Unless you have a reason to use an older release, use the current one.