Getting subclipse to work on Ubuntu 64 and Indigo - Incompatible JavaHL library loaded. 1.7.x or later required

Question

How do I fix this?

I am on ubuntu 64 using Eclipse indigo. I installed http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x.

At first I got this error:

Answer 1

Remove your existing libsvn-java:

sudo apt-get purge libsvn-java

Then, add the following software source and re-install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dominik-stadler/subversion-1.7
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

(found here)

thanks to @codemonkeybr: also update your eclipse.ini with -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

(or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/jni depending on your system ...)

Update for Ubuntu 14 use Subversion 1.8 instead:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dominik-stadler/subversion-1.8