Great. My Eclipse is broken now after I tried to put in an MXML highlighter. This could prove problematic.
UPDATE: I thought I fixed it by uninstalling the highlighter. Nope. The FDT plugin for Eclipse keeps shutting down the entire application, claiming that I’m missing Flex 3.6 SDK and the Flex 4.5 SDK, even though installing 4.5 was one of the steps for getting the Dev env working in the first place. Even uninstalling Eclipse doesn’t work, because then I try to reinstall it and it still has the same plugins somehow.
UPDATE: Either it’s impossible to uninstall Eclipse, or sudo apt-get purge eclipse doesn’t do what I think it does.
UPDATE: Alright, the version of Eclipse I was using is completely gone, and I downloaded a different one more tailored to Java development. Why I wasn’t using it in the first place, I don’t remember. Anyway, now I have to pull what I committed to the repo back out, since apparently some of my local copies are corrupted, and put everything back where it’s supposed to go. And figure out why Eclipse now wants to open Actionscript in a gedit window rather than, y’know, ECLIPSE.
Oh, it’s Monday alright.
UPDATE: Fixed the Editor problem. From the top menu, go into Window -> Preferences, then choose General -> Editors -> File Associations. Add *.as to the File Types pane, highlight it, and add Java Editor as an associated editor. Easy peasy. Now to fix the missing files.
UPDATE: And now I have to reinstall parts of BigBlueButton, because hey why not? I think the moral of this story is clear: don’t download the FDT plugin for Eclipse! Jeez, what a headache. It’s nearly noon and all I’ve been able to work on is repairing the damage from that plugin.
UPDATE: Okay, this stopped being funny two and a half hours ago. After being forced to reinstall parts of BigBlueButton, I try to run commands like bbb-conf and get the message “# BigBlueButton does not appear to be installed … exiting” What in the sam hill is going on?
UPDATE: Finally, everything compiles again and BigBlueButton has remembered that it does, in fact, exist. I had to re-do the step from the DE instructions that would make the red5 folder writeable (sudo chmod -R o+w /usr/share/red5/webapps)
