Eclipse is formatting javadoc tooltips very poorly on Ubuntu

Question

I\'ve been using Eclipse on Windows a lot, and recently started using it on Ubuntu for work.

My problem is, that the Javadoc tool til mostly is unformatted, E.g.

Answer 1

Got the same problem with the rendering of HTML inside the tooltips. After some fiddling around I got the solution:

Install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 from the official Ubuntu repositories. It'S used by eclipse (and most likely other GTK applications) to render the HTML, but neither pre-installed on Kubuntu nor listed as a dependency in the eclipse packages.