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I have Eclipse (Kepler) installed on OS X and updated recently to Maverick. Since then I didn't start Eclipse. Yesterday I did and it told me that there are update available. I installed them, with the result that Eclipse didn't remember to have a perspective for PyDev.

I uninstalled PyDev, reinstalled it and since then it doesn't even appear in the preferences. I can uninstall it again, meaning Eclipse knows it is there, but there is simply no way to configure it.

Today I trashed the whole Eclipse, downloaded a fresh one and installed PyDev via the update site... Same story!

Has anybody the same problem on OS X?

Cheers, Tom

Thomas Becker
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  • possible duplicate of [PyDev not showing up in Eclipse](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19873064/pydev-not-showing-up-in-eclipse) – parvus Feb 06 '14 at 14:42

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I've seen this on Windows 7, after a recent update to Eclipse Kepler and PyDev 3.0.x. The PyDev site states that the latest PyDev requires Java 7. If you don't have Java 7, use PyDev 2. (http://pydev.org/, under the "Release 3.0" title"). I'm using Java 6 to launch Eclipse.

I would check the versions of Java and PyDev you're running.

Gerry Kuhn
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    I changed my Eclipse configuration to launch with Java 7 and the PyDev perspective appears again. Hope this helps. – Gerry Kuhn Nov 07 '13 at 18:55
  • Thanks Gerry! I installed the recent JDK and updated the symlink for the CurrentJDK. Then I started Eclipse where PyDev was already installed but didn't show up in the preferences, and this time it is there. – Thomas Becker Nov 09 '13 at 17:12
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Not enough rep to comment on Gerry Kuhn's answer so I'll make a new one.

You can install java7 but retain your current version and not affect your current set up by specifying which JVM Eclipse should use using the command line -vm option.

All is explained here

indivisible
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Same problem on my Mac here with

Eclipse Version: Kepler Service Release 1 PyDev 3.0.0.201311051910 org.python.pydev.feature.feature.group

solved by using 2.x version just download zip here and extracted folder in the dropin directory and restart is ok now Thanks

Ted Xu
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I solved this problem by changing the eclipse.ini file. I changed from this value

-vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6

to this value.

-vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7

But of course you must have jdk 7 installed previously.

PyiSoeMaw
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