Comment 5 for bug 980217

the workaround worked for me only partially. I my case what could not be deleted was /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse. After the workaround, the upgrade could be run successfully.

However, upon restarting eclipse, it wanted to create a /root/workspace. Why as root - I had started eclipse as a regular user. So I reverted the workaround with sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/eclipse, and then could again start as user.

But after checking for updates again, several were found, but none could be installed as it failed with the exception of: "File that was copied to backup could not be deleted: /usr/lib/eclipse/epl-v10.html".

Going through the workaround again, I was able to do the upgrades, but then eclipse had forgotten all about previously installed Android SDKs, and upgrade attempt resulted in:

Error creating feature "file:/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.cvs_1.3.100.v20110520-0800-7B78FHl9VF7BD7KBM4GP9C/". [/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.cvs_1.3.100.v20110520-0800-7B78FHl9VF7BD7KBM4GP9C/feature.xml (No such file or directory)]
/usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.cvs_1.3.100.v20110520-0800-7B78FHl9VF7BD7KBM4GP9C/feature.xml (No such file or directory)

now my installation appears to be ruined completely.