[Pydev-users] [Users] Problems installing on Windows 7 64 bit

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The following forum message was posted by dennisobrien at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydev/forums/forum/293649/topic/3706051:

So far all of my attempts to install PyDev on Eclipse have failed.  I cannot find any meaningful error log or messages to provide any clues to the failure.  I am not an expert in the Eclipse plugin system, so please bear with me.

Setup:
Windows 7 64-bit
Eclipse 3.5.2
Other plugins: Adobe Flash Builder 4.0.0,  Subclipse 1.6.10. CDT 6.0.2

Here\'s a rough outline of my steps:
[ol]
[li]Make sure any previous version of PyDev is uninstalled.[/li]
[li]Add PyDev\'s update site http://pydev.org/updates[/li]
[li]Select PyDev for Eclipse.  Next.  Finish.  (BTW, version is 1.5.7.2010050621)[/li]
[li]Install proceeds.  Security warning about unsigned content. OK.[/li]
[li]Restart eclipse.[/li]
[li]No PyDev tab in Preferences.  PyDev does show up in the list of Installed Software but it has no entries in the Features or Plug-ins tab of Eclipse Installation Details.[/li]

I\'ve also tried installing via the zip file org.python.pydev.feature-1.5.7.2010050621.zip and pointing to the zip for for a local archive.
Also I\'ve tried unzipping org.python.pydev.feature-1.5.7.2010050621.zip to D:/eclipse/dropins (so that dropins has a features and plugins directory) but this also has not worked.

There is nothing interesting in the log file.  The configuration panel (the text pane in Eclipse Installation Details -> Configuration) has references to pydev but again, nothing that looks obviously wrong to me.


Are there tests I can run to figure out why PyDev is not getting instantiated?

Any help to get PyDev up and running would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Dennis

BTW, I don\'t know that it is relevant, but it strikes me as strange that my Eclipse root folder is D:/eclipse (where I unzipped it) but I have many eclipse files in C:/Users/[username]/.eclipse/  There are files that appear in both locations.  Is it possible that the plugin installation is going to one folder but Eclipse is looking in another at startup?