When running Eclipse 3.0.2 on Linux GTK AMD64, there is a known error: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: gtk_tree_view_column_get_fixed_width For more details see: http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=89911 The fix is to upgrade to version 3.0.2.1 of the fragment org.eclipse.swt.gtk64. The upgrade is available at: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/patch/org.eclipse.swt.gtk64_3.0.2.zip Download the zip file and extract it into the plugin folder of your Eclipse 3.0.2 install.