Eclipse does not automatically use openjdk

[Michael]

Using Ubuntu Hardy. Output of 'eclipse' on the command line:

searching for compatible vm...
  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...not found
  testing /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads...not found
  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun...not found
  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2se/1.5...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2se/1.4...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-ibm...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun...not found
  testing /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun...not found

I know that Hardy is now officially released, but perhaps this is still a small enough fix (a one-liner in /etc/eclipse/java_home) to be added to Hardy?

[exactt (giesbert)]

how did you install eclipse?

[exactt (giesbert)]

forgot to ask: new install or upgrade?

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Upgrade of Ubuntu from Gutsy (originally to the Hardy beta), fresh install of Eclipse. Gutsy was a fresh install about a week before the upgrade (I upgraded because Gutsy didn't support my hardware well, and it turned out Hardy did).

sudo apt-get install eclipse eclipse-cdt

[Jared Sutton (jpsutton)]

same problem here with a fresh install of Hardy, openjdk, and eclipse (from apt, not from tar ball).

[Jared Sutton (jpsutton)]

Looks like there's a commented line for icedtea in eclipse's java_home file currently...

#/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea

Perhaps someone could uncomment this and change it to "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk" instead and put it in hardy-updates?