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lara
Asked: 2018-05-28 04:45:13 +0800 CST

Unable to find eclipse.ini file in snap

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I have installed eclipse in Ubuntu 16.04 via Snap. And in the snap folder, I can see eclipse. 

ls -al snap/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  6 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 49 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:19 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:04 eclipse
drwxr-xr-x  4 croy croy 4096 May 19 12:24 notepad-plus-plus
drwxr-xr-x  6 croy croy 4096 May 22 18:13 skype
drwxr-xr-x  4 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:06 vscode

I am looking for eclipse.ini file And the /snap/eclipse/ folder, there is no file. 

ls -al snap/eclipse
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:04 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 croy croy 4096 May 27 14:04 common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 croy croy    2 May 27 14:04 current -> 12

There is a symbolic link between 12 & current folder but I can't see any file in any of the folder. But If I do - sudo find / -name eclipse.ini it gives me the following result

/snap/eclipse/12/eclipse.ini

Where/how I can find the eclipse.ini file to change jvm argument

eclipse 16.04 snap jvm

1 Answers

  1. /snap/eclipse/current$ ls -ltr
total 345
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 140566 Mar 30 17:31 icon.xpm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  71473 Mar 30 17:31 eclipse
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 137930 Apr  5 20:25 artifacts.xml
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root    586 Apr  5 20:25 eclipse.ini
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root      3 Apr  5 20:25 dropins
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    178 Apr 13 21:13 eclipse.desktop
drwxrwxr-x 64 root root   3707 Apr 13 21:16 features
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root     42 Apr 13 21:17 readme
drwxrwxr-x 14 root root  30835 Apr 13 21:17 plugins
drwxrwxr-x  4 root root     87 Apr 13 21:17 p2
drwxrwxr-x  4 root root    105 Apr 13 21:17 configuration
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     58 Apr 13 21:17 snap
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     43 Apr 13 21:17 meta
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root     36 Apr 13 21:17 command-eclipse.wrapper

    The eclipse.ini file should be present in the /snap/eclipse/current directory as shown above. However you won't be able to edit eclipse.ini file. This is because snap applications are by default mounted on another read-only file system. Even sudo permissions do not work.

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