Fixing Eclipse for Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Today I upgraded my Ubuntu installation to the newly released Karmic Kaola. Except for a couple of glitches during the upgrade process (maybe later more about this), I was able to login to my updated system about an hour later. I opened up Eclipse (running 3.5 - Galileo) to continue my Java development tasks. But very soon I noticed the upgrade introduced severe issues with my favorite IDE, most notably, the buttons on most dialog boxes could not be pushed anymore. Here's how I managed to fix it .... (more...)