Launching Eclipse 3.6 in Ubuntu 11.04

Question

I'm getting a problem is launching eclipse 3.6 in Ubuntu 11.04. I'm dragging the file eclipse from folder to terminal but nothing. can someone help??

Answer 1

Try chown -R your_username the_folder_pathname in Terminal.

Answer 2

Do:

sudo chmod 766 your_username the_folder_pathname/eclipse

Answer 3

Looks like a permission issue to the eclipse program. Try putting eclipse in your home directory, or install it from the ubuntu package manager for easiest full system access. If you must keep eclipse where you have it now (/media/Prg/Programs/eclipse) then you're going to need to give yourself access to this directory (you'll need execute permission). Definitely easiest to put it in your home directory or install via the package manager though.

Hope this helps.

Edit: I should also mention that it is execute permission you are likely lacking here. At least for this error it looks like execute permission on the eclipse binary itself.