Getting the message “Cannot start the update ui…” when trying to run the update UI in Eclipse

Question

When I try to run the update manager in Eclipse, I get the error \"Cannot launch the Update UI. This installation has not been configured properly for Software Updates.\"

Answer 1

There are some bugs already entered about that message:

• bug 238910: if your eclipse error log contains:

  !MESSAGE Error parsing profile /opt/eclipse/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/profileRegistry/SDKProfile.profile/1214752385704.profile.

the .profile was corrupted.
I simply deleted the corrupted .profile, restarted eclipse and everything seems to be fine now

• bug 224658 : when self-hosting, p2 update ui won't come up (self-hosting case (that is, Eclipse debugging another instance of Eclipse, as in a plugin development situation)
  Fixed in 3.4

• bug 230245: Failure to read unicode (in certain xml files): Fixed in 3.4

What version of eclipse are you running?