Unable to load default SVN client
While installing the subversion plugin Subclipse in the Eclipse IDE I came across a problem. Subclipse uses "JavaHL (JNI)" to interface with subversion by default. Initially I was getting the following error message when accessing Windows->Preferences->Team->SVN->SVN Interface dropdown: JavaHL (JNI) Not Available When attempting to view a repository via the "SVN Repository Exploring" perspective I got a different error message: Unable to load default SVN client So I installed the below package sudo apt-get install libsvn-java Still the problem continued and I realized that I need to provide the liberary to Eclipse (3.6 Helios) I choose to set the path to the JavaHL libraries via a command line argument. I accomplished this by setting my Launcher icon for Eclipse to use the command /path/to/eclipse -vmargs -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni Another option is to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to the /usr/lib/jni in your .profile file. ...