PyDev not showing up in Eclipse

Question

I just installed Eclipse Kepler (after an issue with a faulty update in Juno) and tried to install PyDev using the Install New Software option in Eclipse. Basically just following memory/online tutorials. After installing I can't see it in my Preferences pane. Any ideas why that might be so?

Thanks.

Yes, I have Java 7 installed.

UPDATE: A lot of users have suggested numerous solutions to this problem. There may be more than one correct answer below. See what helps you...

Answer 1

Too much!

After wasting 4 hours trying to install PyDev 3, I moved back to 2.8.2 and used the drop in technique instead of Add new software and it now works!

Download 2.8.2 from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydev/files/pydev/

Uninstall PyDev. Simply unzip the contents into the dropins folder below eclipse. Restart eclipse.

Answer 2

After struggling with this problem for some days I wanted to share my solution to the problem - inspired by the above posts (kudo's to them).

My Configuration:

• MacBook Air (intel) with OS X 10.9
• Eclipse: Kepler SR1 installed (zip file extracted in the Applications folder)

My situation:

Tried to install PyDev via Eclipse Help --> Install new software... Installation was succesfull, but PyDev didn't show up anywhere in Eclipse.

My solution:

• In Eclipse go to Help --> Install new software...
• Uncheck "Show only the latest versions of available software"
• Select PyDev the usual way, but install the latest 2.x version instead of the 3.x version

Apparently PyDev 3.0 does not work with the default OS X configuration of Eclipse, Java and Python (don't exactly know why, though...)