Pydev Perspective Not Showing After Install For Eclipse

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After installing the latest version of Pydev on eclipse it is not showing under the list of available perspectives.

Eclipse does however list pydev as being installed which seems weird to me. I would also like to add that I installed pydev through the standard method (Through the "install new software" option under help).

Any help on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Update : we need java8 now for pydev to show up in eclipse after installation (http://www.pydev.org/download.html#pydev-does-not-appear-after-install) — , May 06 '16 at 05:51
I just successfully installed PyDev 5.7.0 from the marketplace of Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers. Version: Neon.3 Release (4.6.3) with Java jdk1.8.0_131 on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4 ... AND PyDev is not showing up in preferences. — sbecker11, May 17 '17 at 14:58

nabster · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-11T21:10:04.547

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I spent hours trying to get PyDev 3.0.0 plugin working with Eclipse Kepler on my mac. I tried

Marketplace installation
Install Software through Update Site
Dropping plugin files under eclipse/dropins

Nothing worked until I finally tried version 2.8.2 of the plugin. I would say get a zip of 2.8.2 from here and put the unzippied version in your /dropins folder of Eclipse. Restart Eclipse. Then go to the preference menu and notice PyDev entry should be there. Sometime it is better to start the Eclipse with admin credentials. Something like this on command line:

sudo /Users/username/Softwares/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse

edited Nov 11 '13 at 21:10

answered Nov 11 '13 at 01:07

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Finally set up the interpreter for your PyDev plugin. Lemme know in the comments, i will be checking this answer for rest of the day. I understand the fructration and hopefully folks at PyDev will address it soon. – nabster Nov 11 '13 at 01:07
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Thanks, this worked. I'm guessing there is some bug with pydev 3.0.0 – crazyCoder Nov 11 '13 at 06:39
uninstalled eclipse as i was unable to uninstall pydev and added the unzipped contents of the pydev plugin 2.8.2 in dropins folder of eclipse and it worked Thanks a lot!!! – Rohan Gala Aug 23 '16 at 06:22
Installing last version of the JRE (1.8) helped for Mars version. Thanks! – Darkgaze Sep 07 '16 at 08:04

score 20 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

First things first, go to pydev offcial page, it stated:

See: the PyDev does not appear after install section on the download page for help on using a Java 8 vm in Eclipse.

Visits this page, it shows:

Well, the main issue at this time is that PyDev requires Java 8 in order to run. So, if you don't want to support PyDev by going the LiClipse route (which is mostly a PyDev standalone plus some goodies), you may have to go through some loops to make sure that you're actually using Java 8 to run Eclipse/PyDev (as explained below).

Also, keep in mind that PyDev 5.x requires Eclipse 4.6 onwards (for Eclipse 3.8 use PyDev 4.x).

In my system:

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_102"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-8u102-b14.1-2-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed mode)

According to this answer

Java 8 (a.k.a 1.8)

So my openJDK 1.8 is Java 8 already met the requirement stated from the pydev statement above. So it's not Java problem in my case.

Recall the pydev last statement:

Also, keep in mind that PyDev 5.x requires Eclipse 4.6 onwards (for Eclipse 3.8 use PyDev 4.x).

So I check my eclipse version, it's merely old version 3.8.1:

But what I've downloaded is latest version pydev 5.3.0, which is wrong, so now what I have to do is follow this instruction to uninstall pydev 5.3.0 first:

Use Shift key to highlight both and uninstall:

After uninstalled, visits this page to copy the old repo link:

Recall the pydev last statement again:

Also, keep in mind that PyDev 5.x requires Eclipse 4.6 onwards (for Eclipse 3.8 use PyDev 4.x).

My eclipse is 3.8.1, so I just have to choose 4.x. The highest version of 4.x listed above is 4.5.5.

I copy the link http://www.pydev.org/update_sites/4.5.5 and paste into eclipse's Install New Software page to install:

After all, Windows -> Preferences, pydev is showing up now:

Thanks! This procedure works with eclipse (from the official repository) on ubunutu-16.04. — squarespiral, Mar 02 '17 at 18:08
This works for me. I used Eclipse 4.2.2 Classic in Windows 8 and try to install PyDev 5.* but it ddnt work and then based on this comment PyDev 4.5.5 works for me Thnx alot — Nuwa, May 11 '17 at 08:43
Install java8 64bit (mine is 64bit eclipse) and set system path to that resolves the problem. — Alex, Sep 21 '18 at 16:30

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 19 '14 at 20:06

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Update your Java to the latest SDK.
Restart Eclipse.

PyDev will be shown in Eclipse>>Preferences

edited Feb 19 '14 at 20:06

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answered Dec 20 '13 at 07:26

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 27 '16 at 16:26

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update Java version. Install the new java. Go to Eclipse-> Preference-> Java -> Intalled JRE -> Check latest java (1.8) -> Apply. Restart Eclipse

answered Nov 27 '16 at 16:26

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 14 '13 at 13:19

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I had the same problem; it seems I was using Eclipse with Java 1.6 instead of with Java 1.7 as required by PyDev.

The fix, for PyDev 3.1.0 on Linux at least, is to start Eclipse with the Java 1.7 binary. Two ways to do this: updating the default Java installation for the system to 1.7 or edit the eclipse.ini to point to a Java 1.7 java binary.

answered Dec 14 '13 at 13:19

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After you installed at least Java 1.7 an restarted, you might still need to go to the menu "Window">>"Customise Perspective" click on the "Comand group availability Tab" and check all the PyDev components. Then on the top right corner of eclipse, click on the "open perspective button" (the one with a plus sign next to "quick access" field) and add the PyDev Perspective. – patapouf_ai Jun 18 '15 at 20:05

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 16 '14 at 09:40

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For Ubuntu users:

Check for Java version ($ java -version). If it is 1.6.0, please upgrade it to 1.7.0 ($ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk)

Also, run the command $ sudo update-alternatives --config java

Restart Eclipse and Pydev will show up in the preferences.

edited Sep 16 '14 at 09:40

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answered Sep 16 '14 at 09:21

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 27 '16 at 10:39

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As per PyDev documentation states, the latest 5.x version now requires Java8 and Eclipse 4.5 onwards (http://www.pydev.org/)

You can use a 4.x PyDev version, which requires Java7, using the alternative update sites (http://www.pydev.org/update_sites/index.html)

answered Jun 27 '16 at 10:39

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The problem is that it is not mentioned when you install the plugin. – Darkgaze Sep 07 '16 at 08:04

Omar Trejo · Answer 8 · 2014-11-23T02:07:18.103

The PyDev installation guide addresses this issue. The solution is to update to Java 7 or later.

Edit: As @aaron-hall suggested, I'll give a more detailed explanation:

The nice folks that develop PyDev have decided to upgrade the Java version they are using (wise decision, but breaks compatibility backwards). If you have Java 6, then you need to upgrade at least to 7 (you can find numerous sites explaining how to do it in case you don't know). After you have installed the new version of Java, inside Eclipse go to Preferences/Java/Installed JREs and add your recently installed JRE. After that, restart Eclipse and install PyDev as you normally would. Everything should work fine now.

If for some reason you can't or won't install Java 7 or 8, then you must stick to PyDev 2.8.x.

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 03 '16 at 08:49

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in my case, you need to use jdk 1.8, if the pydev is 5.0.0.

answered Jun 03 '16 at 08:49

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score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Apr 18 '17 at 14:04

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If anybody has Eclipse Neon, this is how I fixed it:

From the Window menu > Perspective > Customize
Check Pydev Debug and the sub-items you're interested in.

Now you can see the Pydev on the Menu bar.

answered Apr 18 '17 at 14:04

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it works for me, the `PyDev Debug` action sets it not available by default, but you can let it work, thank you for all. – aiziyuer Jun 28 '17 at 14:56
I'm glad this was helpful! – yahyazini Jun 28 '17 at 15:19

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 23 '15 at 09:03

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My solution was to run eclipse from the command line with the -clean flag:

eclipse -clean

This has to be done once in a while around package upgrades.

answered Apr 23 '15 at 09:03

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 08 '16 at 10:40

I went through all the above steps, but it didn't work. At last, I saw that my launcher pointed to a wrong Java installation. It was:

   eclipse -vm /usr/local/java/jre1.7.0_67/bin/java

then I corrected to the java installation appropriate for my case, as stated in the previous answers, and it works:

   eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/bin/java

Of course these are my installation dependent paths. You should check your owns.

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 11:25

There are a few things that has to be checked when installing pydev from install new software on eclipse.

Version of eclipse
Version of java

If you are using java 7 and still you cant find pydev under preferences(that happened to me), there is a good chance that you have installed a version of pydev which is above 4.5.5. PyDev 4.5.5 is the last release supporting Java 7 and Eclipse 3.8. For more details, go through this link http://www.pydev.org/ under release 5.2.0. Like wise for java 6, an older version of pydev will help solve the issue, and there are a lot of sites which will find your right version of pydev according to your eclipse and java version Cheers

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Apr 03 '17 at 13:46

I faced this issue. My environment looked like this

Windows 7 Enterprise (64 bit)
Eclipse SDK 4.2
Python 3.6.1
Pydev 5.2
JRE 1.8.0_111

In the above configuration the PyDev plugin didn't show up.

I did the following:

Installed the jdk 1.8 (64 bit)
Installed Eclipse Neon
Installed the Pydev plugin using the Plugin manager.

All works fine now !

It is clearly stated in the installation instructions that PyDev requires Java 8 and Eclipse 4.6 (Neon) in order to run and only supports Python 2.6 onwards.

score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Apr 09 '17 at 15:05

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In my case, while installing the plugin, I had forgotten to click on a checkbox to trust a certificate, then I installed it again, checked the checkbox and it worked.

answered Apr 09 '17 at 15:05

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score 0 · Answer 16 · edited Jul 28 '17 at 07:12

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I had the problem too, and I solved it just by waiting for eclipse to download all files, it takes some time. When the downloads are completed eclipse will remind you to restart, if you see that remind you have succeeded.

edited Jul 28 '17 at 07:12

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answered Jul 28 '17 at 06:53

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Mar 31 '22 at 14:49

I installed Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (setup by Oomph) into the folder 'C:\Program Files' with administrator privileges on Windows. After manually renaming/moving the Eclipse installation folder and installing PyDev, it did not show up as Perspective.

A possible solution is to run Eclipse as administrator and to reinstall PyDev.

Note: When the initial installation directory of Eclipse is not changed, PyDev also works correctly.

score -1 · Answer 18 · edited Nov 21 '16 at 10:56

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Solved with updating vm args. Just pointed to java8.

-vm E:/sw/java/jdk1.8.0_91/bin/javaw.exe

edited Nov 21 '16 at 10:56

willome

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answered Nov 19 '16 at 05:32

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