Ed's Blog

I had a strange problem with Aptana Studio for the last week. I have Subclipse installed as a plugin and previously all my icons appeared fine, all the repository information showed up. I was able to perform Update and all the other typical SVN commands. However in the last week all the icons disappeared and were replaced by question marks. Nothing had appeared to have changed so I was confused with it! Aptana had previously performed an update so I decided to uninstall it and re-installed Aptana, same problem. I uninstalled it again and put in Eclipse but same problem. Finally after fishing around a bit I saw that my workspace directory i.e. ~/Sites/ had an .svn directory in it. I had no idea why it was there so I deleted it and the subdirectories, restarted Aptana and all the icons showed up agan! I’ve no idea how it got in to begin with but I’ve seen it again since on a Ubuntu machine so its not just me!

I needed a command to see what packages were installed in Ubuntu, found this after a little searching:

    dpkg –get-selections

Does the job nicely.