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After successfully going through the install process, when I change to the Force.com perspective I get the following error:

'problem opening perspective 'com.salesforce.ide.perspective'

I'm running eclipse 3.3.2 on Ubuntu Linux 2.6.24. Any Ideas why I'm getting this error? (Linux, networking)

By the way I tried installing on my winXP box and it worked.

Scott