[SOLVED] Installing Eclipse on Debian Squeeze

nima0102 · 12-03-2009, 01:01 PM

Hi
First of all, Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.
I intend to install Eclipse on Debian Squeeze for programming python, but unfortunately I could not any easy HowTo for installing.
May any one give some guidance for installing Eclipse on Debian Squeeze ?

Thanks in advance

rweaver · 12-03-2009, 01:09 PM

Generally installation of eclipse on debian is pretty easy-- aptitude (or apt-get) install eclipse unless there are presently issues with it in squeeze.

nima0102 · 12-03-2009, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

Generally installation of eclipse on debian is pretty easy-- aptitude (or apt-get) install eclipse unless there are presently issues with it in squeeze.

Thanks
But in Squeeze there is no any candidate for this package

rweaver · 12-03-2009, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nima0102

Thanks
But in Squeeze there is no any candidate for this package

What do you currently have listed in your sources.list and what do you get when you issue an:

Code:

apt-get update && apt-cache search eclipse

nima0102 · 12-03-2009, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

What do you currently have listed in your sources.list and what do you get when you issue an:

Code:

apt-get update && apt-cache search eclipse

Thanks
the output of that command is some package related to eclipse but apparently none of them are not main package.

Thanks in advance

AleLinuxBSD · 12-11-2009, 01:27 AM

Why don't try to simply install the version available directly from the producer?
In this manner you will have always the last release and, very good thing, the procedure is indipendently by the distro linux that you use (deb,rpm,etc).

nima0102 · 12-11-2009, 04:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AleLinuxBSD

Why don't try to simply install the version available directly from the producer?
In this manner you will have always the last release and, very good thing, the procedure is indipendently by the distro linux that you use (deb,rpm,etc).

Thanks for your attention
I have already installed that way and there is now problem now

evo2 · 12-11-2009, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AleLinuxBSD

Why don't try to simply install the version available directly from the producer?
In this manner you will have always the last release and, very good thing, the procedure is indipendently by the distro linux that you use (deb,rpm,etc).

Because they usually don't have repositories (eg apt, yum etc) which means you have to install and upgrade by hand. Because packges produced by third parties are usually of lower quality. Because they never backport security fixes: the just realease new versions. ... I think listed the main reasons.

Evo2.

AleLinuxBSD · 12-12-2009, 02:58 AM

I don't use Eclipse because i don't like it (for me isn't sufficiently stable) but at least on NetBeans there is a function included in the package for upgrade the product directly (similar function are present even on package as firefox download from mozilla).

Note:
The acquisition from Oracle about Java give me some headache because seem Oracle isn't much interest on mantain NetBeans (they have jdeveloper and extension for Eclipse).

ucalculus · 12-14-2009, 12:01 PM

I would not recommend to use Eclipse from repoes -- it's tooo old. What I do: download it from official site -> unpack to ~/.bin/eclipse -> use it. That's all!