Configure the Java environment Eclipse loads with.
OK, well I reinstalled my laptop the other week and have being doing some programming the last couple of days with Java, to program in java I use the brilliant IDE called Eclipse, well normally I don't have any problems however over the last few days it has being crashing every 10 or 15 minutes. After playing around with the settings for awhile I remembered something I had read on a forum a while ago. Apparently Eclipse doesn't load using the system defaulted java(no idea why) but instead searches through a list to find one that is install(who would do this???). Anyway after a bit of searching I managed to find a brief post about the file, it was however for a slightly differnet OS and a different version of Eclipse, anyway I managed to track down the file. The file is called:
/etc/eclipse/java_home
In that file there is a list of different location for java directories, in order to use the sun java by default you have to add the following line at the top of the list:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
In order to add that line just use your favorite text editor, remember you will need sudo permissions to edit the file.
Anyway that seems to have made Eclipse go back to is stable old self.
This was tested under Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10 and seems to work on both.
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