Workarounds: Installation Manager cannot install the Rational Team Concert client for Eclipse IDE into Eclipse 3.7.2
Chris Daly
Last Updated: November 27, 2012
Build Basis: Rational Team Concert 4.0.1
The table of contents lists the known problems, workarounds, and limitations related to the installation of the Rational Team Concert 4.0.1 release.
Workarounds
Use the links below to learn more about the issues and workarounds in this release:
Problem Summary
The Rational Team Concert client for Eclipse IDE cannot be installed into an instance of Eclipse 3.7.2 SDK.
Problem
When you try to install the Rational Team Concert Eclipse client into an instance of Eclipse 3.7.2 SDK, IBM Installation Manager fails and an error like this one is displayed:
The root cause of this error is a bug in the versioning of one of the bundles in Eclipse 3.7.2. You can work around the problem by applying a patch to your Eclipse 3.7.2 installation.
Workaround
Complete these steps:
- From eclipse.org, obtain the Eclipse 3.7.2 download, and then extract the files to a local directory.
Note: Throughout the rest of these steps, the top level eclipse directory in the extracted files is referred to as ECLIPSE_DIR.
- Perform any configuration necessary to get the ECLIPSE_DIR/eclipse application to start. For example, you might need to add a -vm argument to the ECLIPSE_DIR/eclipse.ini configuration file to specify the location of the Java virtual machine (JVM).
- If Eclipse is running, shut it down.
- Download the eclipse patch for this issue and extract it in the ECLIPSE_DIR directory such that the plugins and features directories in the patch .zip file overlay on top of those subdirectories in the ECLIPSE_DIR directory.
NOTE: The content in the above download is governed by the terms of the license for IBM Rational Team Concert 4.0.1. - Start Eclipse again.
- Open the "Help: About Eclipse SDK" window and click Installation Details. On the Installed Software tab, confirm that the PDE Patch is listed, as shown in this image:
- Shut down Eclipse.
- Use IBM Installation Manager to install Rational Team Concert into the ECLIPSE_DIR location. The installation should conclude without errors.
- After the installation, restart Eclipse to make Rational Team Concert available to use.
Related Information
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