[ubuntu] Eclipse Ganymede + Subclipse: anyone succeeded?

[hoc]

UPDATE: I found an easier solution to the problem (described in my forum post following this one).
I'll leave this post for the more adventurous users out there.

Originally Posted by peterdm This is how I got JavaHL to work: I presume you've installed Eclipse Ganymede by hand, since it's not in the Ubuntu repos. The problem comes from the fact that the subclipse plugin requires subversion 1.5.x installed, while Ubuntu 8.04 comes with subversino 1.4.x. So if we want it to work, we'll have to uninstall subversion from the Ubuntu repos and compile subversion ourselves. Let's assume you have Eclipse Ganymede installed in /usr/share/eclipse, and that you're using a JDK installed in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk. In order to be able to compile subversion, you need to make sure the following packages installed: libapr-1, libapr1-dev, libaprutil1, libaprutil1-dev sudo apt-get install libapr-1 libapr1-dev libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dev Make sure the Ubuntu package libsvn-java is not installed, this is the one we're about to compile for ourselves in the following steps Now download the subclipse sources and untar them (e.g. in your user's home) tar -xvjf subversion-1.5.1.tar.bz2 Enter the directory, configure and build javahl (as normal user) and install (as super user) cd subversion-1.5.1 ./configure --enable-javahl --with-jdk=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/ make javahl sudo make install-javahl Now the javahl libraries are installed in /usr/local/lib but you probably want them in /usr/lib/jni. sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.* /usr/lib/jni/ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/svn-javahl/svn-javahl.jar /usr/share/java/ The first command has not copied the symbolic links correctly, it has replaced them by copies of the actual files. This works, but you may want fix the links. For some reason Eclipse still doesn't pick them up now, so we'll have to be a bit more persuasive. You should add a line -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni to the file /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini (edit as super user) after the -vmargs line Install http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x as Eclipse update site, and install subclipse with the javahl adapter Now you should have JavaHL working in Eclipse Ganymede! Double-check by opening Window->Preferences->Team->SVN, and select JavaHL under "SVN Interface" section. It should say "JavaHL (JNI) 1.5.1..." instead of the dreaded "JavaHL(JNI) Not Available"! Hope this helps, Peter

Thx for the info Peter. This has worked for me with some differences:

I did one more install through apt-get, as noted by Mwiti (thx!):

sudo apt-get install libsvn-dev

As i didn't have any jni-libraries installed I had to create the jni directory before I did make install

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jni
sudo make install-javahl

(To be complete, I actually executed the normal target instead: sudo make install, but target install-javahl should be sufficient.)

Afterwards I didn't have to edit the eclipse.ini (I actually did add this but without the desired result.), but instead create links in /usr/lib to every file in the /usr/lib/jni directory.

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s jni/libsvnjavahl-1.a
sudo ln -s jni/libsvnjavahl-1.la
sudo ln -s jni/libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0
sudo ln -s libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0 libsvnjavahl-1.so
sudo ln -s libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0 libsvnjavahl-1.so.0

After the linking Subclipse picked up JavaHl.

Installed on:
Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 amd64
Eclipse 3.4 Ganymedes

[hoc]

Okok, after i ran a full 'make install' and did all the stuff mentioned above, subclipse was happy with it's javahl, but subversion had trouble accessing repositories through webdav (from commandline, etc.). I tried resolving this by recompiling subversion with the correct parameters, but without some serious changes to the makefile and compiling other libraries because of missing libraryfiles, this was impossible. Too much work and maintenance afterwards, so I just searched for the intrepid packages, as Peter rightfully suggested.

Much easier, i admit, but the packages are not yet officially declared stable, so install at your own risk.

So ... solution 2. Basically download relevant packages from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and install them. An alternative is to add the intrepid repository to your apt-get installation, but then you have some pinning/priority management to do, otherwise you end up with intrepid instead of hardy.

The packages you need are:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libsqlite3-0
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libsvn1
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libneon27-gnutls
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libsvn-java
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/subversion

Download them to a separate folder, cd to the folder and run:

sudo dpkg -i *

Afterwards for subclipse to find the shared libraries you still need to create some links in /usr/lib

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s jni/libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0
sudo ln -s libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0 libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0
sudo ln -s libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0 libsvnjavahl-1.so.0
sudo ln -s libsvnjavahl-1.so.0.0.0 libsvnjavahl-1.so

Now subclipse works and the command line client as well. At least for repository-access over http.

And of course thx to the ubuntu package maintainers and to the helpfull forum people for making life a bit easier.

[danigb]

i've installed solution 2 at my own risk... and i've messed everything up! i could install the packages because some dependencies missing. after i could remove the installed packages and some conflicts in apt-get appeared!!

oohhohh! now i cant install svn1.5 using sourcecode because some version conflicts!! how can i remove the hand-installed deb packages and downgrade to the prev version?

thanks!!

[peterdm]

Intrepid contains the correct subversion library version 1.5.*.
So for intrepid, the solution becomes slightly easier:

1. Make sure libsvn1 and libsvn-java are installed from the repos.
2. Edit the file /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini] as superuser and add a line -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni after the -vmargs line.
3. Add http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x as an eclipse update site and install the plugin.
4. After eclipse restarts, you can double-check in Preferences->Team->SVN that the SVN Interface Client says "JavaHL (JNI) 1.5.*".

Peter

[ognum]

I used to have the same problem. The cause, in my case, was that I was using the subclipse 1.2 update site. When I changed to the supclipse 1.4 update site everything worked fine.

Follow the instructions on the following page:
http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html

[kehan]

I too was racking my brains - ubuntu 8.10, subclipse 1.4, ganymede, libsvn-java 1.5.1. The only other thing I needed to do was add:
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
to eclipse.ini and hey presto working again.

[ptvnga]

Hi all
I am new on Ubuntu Hardy...

I have to work with my laptop on ganymede with subclipse (1.4)
I have install Ubuntu Hardy cause my thinkpad got some trouble
with intrepid (audio)

That's why I read this thread.
I install some libs :libapr ....
I dowload subversion1.5.1
I configure it
I compile it
But unfortunately I got this error
cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libneon.la'

can you help me?
Thanks

[kehan]

I did it without compiling anything, just do the following

sudo apt-get install subversion libsvn-java

Then edit eclipse.ini in your eclipse folder (mine's at ~/eclipse/eclipse.ini) and add the following line:

-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

But I seem to recall that when I was using hardy (which you seem to be on) I just had to have libsvn-java installed - I didn't have to edit the eclipse.ini file at all.

[willou]

Hi

I still have the problem with the new configuration.
Here's element of my configuraton :

$ dpkg -l |grep libsvn-java
ii  libsvn-java                                1.5.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2                       Java bindings for Subversion
$ dpkg -l |grep subversion
ii  subversion                                 1.5.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2                       Advanced version control system
$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"
$ grep '<p>Release' ~/bin/eclipse/readme/readme_eclipse.html 
<p>Release 3.4.2<br>

See joined screenshots.

Thans for your support.
David «Willou»