Eclipse installation error : an error has occurred. See the log file

Question

I installed Eclipse IDE on my raspberry pi 3 with the command apt-get install eclipse . But when I run the program, a window spawns and said that an error has occured : The error

An error has occurred.  See the log file
/home/pi/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/1598129501217.log

This file doesn't exist...

I also tried to install Eclipse with the installer that we can find on eclipse.org but I cannot run the installer... eclipse installer image

Please, send help.

Answer 1

The installer has not been compiled for ARM. It is only for Linux on x86-64 hardware and will not run on a Raspberry Pi.

Debian/Raspbian currently ship Eclipse 3.8, which was released back in 2012, and it is not compatible with JDKs from 2020. For now, you'll want to go to https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ and directly download a 4.17 (or newer) build for Linux aarch64, such as the one under the "Eclipse SDK" part of the build's page, and unpack and use that.