Eclipse documentation not installed

[Samuel Schluep]

After a clean install of Eclipse on Gutsy the help contents cannot be accessed. Selecting "Help"and then "Help Contents" in the menu returns a dialog box "Help Error: Documentation is not installed".

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

Strange. Same problem here.

[Greg Johnson (greg-johnson-saltaire)]

Same here. Confirmed.

[Jon Ramvi (ramvi)]

Gutsy: And here..

[Jon Ramvi (ramvi)]

SOLUTION:

Start Eclipse as root
sudo eclipse

Go to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install...

Select Search for new features to install and click Next

Select The Eclipse Project Updates and click Finish

Select Eclipse 3.2.2 > Eclipse Project SDK

And install

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

Works like a charm. Thanks.

[Al Winter (awinterjr)]

I am new to Ubuntu 7.10.
After a clean install of Eclipse on Gutsy the help contents cannot be accessed.
I tried the solution by Jon Ramvi.
After selecting "The Eclipse Project Updates" and clicking "Finish".

Error Message:
Eclipse Java Development Tools 3.2.1 performance patch (bug: 159325) (1.0.0)
requires feature "org.eclipse.jdt (3.2.1.r321_v20060905-R4CM1Znkvre9wC-)"

Detailed Error Message:
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Eclipse Java Development Tools 3.2.1 performance patch (bug: 159325) (1.0.0)
requires feature "org.eclipse.jdt (3.2.1.r321_v20060905-R4CM1Znkvre9wC-)"
---
Eclipse Platform 3.2.1 patch (bugs: 146869, 162935, 163106) (1.0.0) requires
feature "org.eclipse.platform (3.2.1r321_v20060921-b_XVA-INSQSyMtx)".
----
Eclipse RCP 3.2.1 patch (bugs:161976, 162146, 162598) (1.0.0) requires
feature "org.eclipse.rcp (3.2.1.r321_v20060801-2ekW2BxmcpPUOoq)".

I am totally new to linux, any help would be appreciated.

[Norman S (nsillito)]

New to Ubuntu and all things Linux. Just learned today that sudo is typed as a command line using the Terminal Program in Accessories. And I thought terminal was just for connecting to other servers....

Anyway, I think the problem above maybe the result of not expanding the Update Options and just selecting the one suggested above:

Eclipse 3.2.2 > Eclipse Project SDK

It is buried a few levels down. Click on the small triangle in front of each option to expand them. If you just select the top level option, then you get all the sub options resulting in the above error messages.

[Norman S (nsillito)]

On my system the error message was

"The topic that you have requested is not available. The link may be wrong, or you may not have the corresponding product feature installed. This online help only includes documentation for features that are installed."

This seems to be a fairly generic error message as well as the one above.

ps Installing just the option above worked for me as well.

[Pär Lidén (par-liden)]

The problem with missing documentation still persists on the Hardy.

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

The problem with missing documentation also exists on Intrepid.

[Ivo Cavalcante (iscc)]

Same here - Intrepid.

[christoph (christophs)]

Yes. Can confirm (intrepid).
There also isn't a package like "eclipse-doc".

[Tudor A. (tudor-apostu)]

Re: Eclipse Java Development Tools 3.2.1 performance patch (bug: 159325) (1.0.0)
requires feature "org.eclipse.jdt (3.2.1.r321_v20060905-R4CM1Znkvre9wC-)"

I also hit this error (and I came to this site that way :P )

I followed Norman S' idea: I just deselected the 3.2.1 patch (it's not the latest anyway) and it worked fine.

To deselect it, just expand the option "The Eclipse Project Updates", and you'll find it down the list.

I hope I made it clear :)

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

Is still a problem for eclipse 3.5.1?

~Niels

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!