I’ve got the eclipse snap installed on Ubuntu 18.04, but I am finding it rather awkward that I must re-install the CDT each time I launch the app.
I suspect that the running snap container is discarded each time the app closes, thus losing any extensions I install, so what would be the recommended way to support eclipse extensions from within snap?
Or do I just need to install eclipse manually outside of the snap?
snap info eclipse
name: eclipse
summary: Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE
publisher: snapcrafters
license: unknown
description: |
Eclipse provides IDEs and platforms for nearly every language and architecture. We are famous for our
Java IDE, C/C++, JavaScript and PHP IDEs built on extensible platforms for creating desktop, Web and
cloud IDEs. These platforms deliver the most extensive collection of add-on tools available for
software developers.
commands:
I’m afraid I’ve failed to recreate this. It’s now behaving, but I have had to re-install the extensions twice, which makes me suspicious that it may still happen again.
Anyway, I’ve now tried installing the extensions, and closing the app, and re-launching
Then I rebooted, and relaunched
Looking in the snap info above, I see that the snap was ‘refreshed’ on Thursday just gone - I wonder if that was the cause of my having to re-install the plugins this morning ? <I didn’t use eclipse on Friday>
Unfortunately I don’t know how to force a refresh to test this…
Yes, this does indeed seem like a plausible explanation. Though it hasn’t happened since?
Perhaps I got unlucky and installed it just before an update occurred.
The issue you reference certainly would explain what I saw. I hope that gets fixed - as it would be rather frustrating to re-install all plugins after every (seemless and unpreventable?) upgrade.
Otherwise working well for me - so I think we can consider this thread closed.