How to reinstall Eclipse on Linux?

Question

I used the Software Manager in Linux Mint to install Eclipse Platform. It was working yesterday, however, now whenever I run it I get the following error message:

The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.

I tried uninstalling it and then installing it again. Much to my confusion, this did not work. The error message still persists. It implies Eclipse requires a shared dependency that it cannot find. Is there anyway to find out what this is and install it? I've tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to update packages but this didn't resolve the issue at hand.

Answer 1

I have been using linux and Eclipse for years, but I would never suggest anyone install Eclipse from the platform repositories for any distribution.

Get your eclipse zips directly from Eclipse.org

Answer 2

Personally, I would just "Google it." (Or, in my case, "DuckDuckGo it.") Put the exact error-message text in double quotes to tell the search-engine that you are looking for the exact phrase.

DDG promptly referred me to this page: http://veeddie.blogspot.com/2010/06/eclipse-executable-launcher-was-unable.html