Eclipse Update Failing with Message “Insufficient access privileges to apply this update”

Question

I\'m running Eclipse under a Windows 7, 64-bit installation on which I have administrator privileges.

Since I first installed Eclipse many months ago, I\'ve been able to

Answer 1

Hit same problem on Macos sierra 10.12.3 after clean install of Eclipse JEE Neon R. A clue was that my mac showed a dialog when I launched the app that asked:

“Eclipse.app” is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

When the updater dialog box showed "Insufficient access privileges to apply this update" I checked the Eclipse.app directory (I had downloaded & unpacked the .tar.gz file, if that matters) and saw this:

 drwxrwxr-x@  3 chris  staff         102 Jun 13  2016 Eclipse.app

I examined the extended attribute and saw this:

$ xattr Eclipse.app
com.apple.quarantine

That quarantine attribute seems to block the Eclipse updater! I removed that extended attribute like this:

xattr -d -r Eclipse.app

After that Eclipse updated itself very happily. HTH