Comment 48 for bug 123064

@Ashton: "If you need ... Eclipse, use Fedora":

Well, thanks for the hint, but *you can't be serious*! As far as I'm concerned, Fedora is a completely different OS than Ubuntu and (for me at least) just as much of a difference as, let's say, MacOS would be... Having to switch the OS to make something work that worked fine in the previous version is just the reason BUG #1 will be open for much much longer...

@Andriy:

Yes, I know. It works fine in 7.10 x64 for me as well, but does *not* currently work in 8.04.

I *really* hope this will be fixed (and that's the reason I'm testing 8.04 and posting here), but it's really frustrating to see new things break in every new release.

I've tried 4 releases of Ubuntu now and at the beginning I was really impressed / enthusiastic and thought "wow, things are really moving forward rapidly and I can switch in a year or so". In every subsequent release, a lot of things got better but new things broke that had worked before. I'm now officially frustrated... how can I (ever) use a system like that if I can't be sure that things will even "keep working"? I'm sorry, we were told this is not a forum for rants... it's just that I'm frustrated at the moment... and unfortunately, I do not have enough Linux knowledge (yet) to solve this problem myself or help others solve it...

Well, maybe I can help a little by posting the log-file:
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!SESSION 2008-03-31 20:08:11.055 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20080221-1800
java.version=1.6.0_05
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-03-31 20:08:12.558
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-gtk-3349 or swt-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar file
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:219)
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:151)
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.<clinit>(C.java:21)
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63)
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:128)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:482)
...
==================
I do have packages called "libswt3.2-gtk-java" and "libswt3.2-gtk-jni" installed, but Eclipse 3.3 doesn't seem to like them...

Hope somebody can solve this for Hardy final...