Eclipse Juno Internal Web Browser unavailable (Ubuntu)

Question

I've installed Eclipse (Juno) on Ubuntu Precise and am unable to use Eclipse's internal web browser. I'm getting this error:

SWT Browser control is not available

I've searched around and haven't found a solution that works.

Thanks for your help!

Mike

This applies to Indigo too (any eclipse?) and when viewing Javadoc too. — Piotr Findeisen, Nov 12 '12 at 16:19

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '12 at 00:08

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I did find a solution which worked:

sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

I'm not sure why, though.

Mike

answered Jul 06 '12 at 00:08

MikeP

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Thanks for the straight forward solution. Looks like eclipse runs internal browser on webkitgtk, which is nice. Tested on a headless ubuntu. – echedey lorenzo Nov 24 '12 at 15:39

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '12 at 02:12

Under Linux, the SWT browser widget can either use Mozilla XULRunner or Webkit 1. I have had version conflicts between the web browser included in a Linux distro, XULRunner and what's accepted by SWT. Using Webkit seems an easier approach. If you have both XULRunner and Webkit installed, see 2 to select a specific toolkit.

Eclipse Juno Internal Web Browser unavailable (Ubuntu)

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