The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library

How I fixed this error ( Ubuntu 10.4 32bit ):

1. Finding the eclipse launcher shared library and saving the path to a variable

$> path=$(find /path/to/eclipse -iname eclipse_1206.so)

2. Check var

$> echo $path

The path should look something like this:

/opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.200.v20090520/eclipse_1206.so

3. Change access rights to the launcher:

$> sudo chmod 755 $path



That's it. Hope that helped