Eclipse cannot start "java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-pi-gtk"

[8200]

Hi,

I am using ubuntu 12.04 amd64 and with the latest updates eclipse doesn't work anymore.

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons:
 no swt-pi-gtk-3740 in java.library.path
 no swt-pi-gtk in java.library.path

My java version:
java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b147)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

Already tried the following:

"sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java
[sudo] password for arthur:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libswt-gtk-3-java is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

[Henry (henrywest93)]

I'm having the exact same issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[8200 (8200)]

Thank you Henry, good to know that I'm not allone with the problem.

Maybe we should add eclipse to the affected package - but I don't know how...

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 10:17:31PM -0000, 8200 wrote:
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons:
> no swt-pi-gtk-3740 in java.library.path
> no swt-pi-gtk in java.library.path
> [...]
> "sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java
---end quoted text---

  You need to install 'libswt-gtk-3-jni' package

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[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

I found a workaround by copying /usr/lib/jni/libswt-*3740.so to ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64/

[John Thorp (2-ebay)]

I was having a very similar error in 12.04:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons:
 no swt-gtk-3740 in java.library.path
...

Duane's work around worked for me also, with the following minor variation since I have a 32 bit machine:
$ cp /usr/lib/jni/libswt-*3740.so ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86

Thanks for your help!

[Simon Vass (svass)]

Workaround working here also Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit

[Jacobus Erasmus (jacobus)]

I have the same problem my workaround

$ rm ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64
$ ln -s /usr/lib/jni ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

This looks like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663734 doesn't it ?

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

zekr is also using swt-gtk, yet I am not experiencing this problem of yours. So I am marking this bug as affecting eclipse rather than swt-gtk

[Henrik Heino (henu)]

Duane's workaround fixed the problem for me. Thanks :)

[Ronald Rios (rdrios)]

Thanks Duante it works!!! Hope they fixed soon.

[Nick K. (ph4ntome)]

I had the same problem too. The fix indeed works! (remember first to remove the directory)

[michael thorne (mxtbcca)]

Thanks for the post, to remove the directory used:

$ rmdir ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64

[Scott Severance (scott.severance)]

I believe Mikolaj Lechtanski's workaround is more efficient. It was originally posted here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663734#31

> create or edit /etc/eclipse.ini
>
> Paste inside:
>
> -vmargs
> -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
>
> exit
>
> make sure the file is readable:
>
> sudo chmod 755 /etc/eclipse.ini

[vicis (vicianm)]

In my case I am running 64bit Debian Wheezy and I tried to run 32bit Eclipse on 32bit Java 1.7.
Installing 32bit GTK libraries solved my problem:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-gtk