eclipse on debian sarge

Ed Robbins ed at erobbins.com
Sat Feb 5 14:55:01 EST 2005


You may find installing it directly from the eclipse site to be just as 
easy.  First you need to have Java installed, you may find it easier to 
do this from java.sun.com as well.  Then download the zip file from 
eclipse.  Unzip and simply run the executable in the eclipse directory.

Ed

Greg Rundlett wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone is using eclipse on Debian Sarge?
> 
> I am trying to get into Java web development, but I find no information 
> on properly getting eclipse installed and running on Sarge.  I found an 
> article about installing it on Woody[1], but the author had to jump 
> through hoops to get things working there.  It seems that you could 
> download eclipse 3 web tools [2] from eclipse.org, but I have not yet 
> figured out exactly what I need to do in order to ensure that I have met 
> the requirements, that I have the right pieces.  I would rather install 
> it using apt if possible b/c then the maintenance, dependencies and 
> upgrade is so much easier.
> 
> Searching debian.org, seems to indicate that a prior packager of eclipse 
> 2.x has stopped maintaining it, but there is a german website with some 
> eclipse 3.0 download [3], and eclipse *is* being adopted into debian, 
> but not ready yet.  The last comment on this thread[4] indicates as of 
> Jan 11, 2005 there is *almost* an eclipse 3 debian package.
> 
> In order to get Java technology installed, I am reading the Debian Java 
> FAQ [5], but personal tips or pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> [1] http://hemswell.lincoln.ac.uk/~dnutter/eclipse-woody.php
> [2] http://eclipse.org/webtools/index.html
> [3] www.katzien.de/debian/eclipse3/
> [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276096
> [5] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq
> 



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