Sunday, 1 November 2009

Installing Rational Software Architect Standard Edition 7.5.4 on Ubuntu 9.10

When installing Rational Software Architect Standard Edition 7.5.4 (and RAD 7.5.4) onto Ubuntu 9.10 it is likely that you might experience a few problems. This posting identifies these problems and their solutions.

The first is a missing library:
  • http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/libstdc++5/download
The second is an SWT error inside your initial workspace's .log file: /home/jsears/IBM/rationalsdp/workspace/.metadata, with: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error.
  • sudo apt-get install xulrunner
  • sudo vi /opt/IBM/SDP/eclipse.ini with -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner
The third problem is to do with GTK affecting various buttons such that a mouse click is not enough for the button to be dismissed. The answer to this is to invoke eclipse not by the main menu but via a .sh script (with an icon image of /opt/IBM/SDP/rsa_se/RSA_v7_32.xpm):
  • export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
  • /opt/IBM/SDP/eclipse -product com.ibm.rational.rsastd.product.v75.ide
Only by carrying out these things was I able to start the IDE and use it as expected:

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