eclipse on debian sarge

[Jeff Smith]

A quick debian search
(http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=eclipse&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all)
indicates eclipse is packaged for unstable, but not testing
(in contrib).  A search on ubuntu linux
(http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/EclipsePackaging/view?searchterm=eclipse),
based on Debian, indicates the sources are available on
mentors.debian.net.  

Note that eclipse (thanks to Red Hat) can be compiled/run
with gcj, not depending on Java.  In fact, the contrib
section on debian indicates that that package still depends
on Blackdown.  However, the ubuntu page notes that Eclipse
compiles with GCJ4.0, available from debian experimental
(the really unstable source of packages).  

jeff

--- Greg Rundlett <greg at freephile.com> 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
> 
> -- 
> Greg Rundlett
> www.rundlett.com
> www.freephile.com
> 
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> 
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