Hi.
I am new to Linux.
I am a developer and I just installed Suse 9.2 on a new box.
I am trying desperately to get Eclipse installed, but I am not having much luck.
I don't have an internet connection up yet--am still trying to get the wireless
card to work.
My understanding is that Eclipse comes with Suse, but it is located only on the
DVD disks. I don't have a DVD driver.
So I found the RPM's for eclipse on the DVD disk, using my windows box, and
burned them to a CD.
I copied them from the CD to a tempory folder, and tried to install with Yast.
The first one I tried to install was eclipse-3.0-5.i586.rpm. This worked, but
all that it did was move
a bunch of packages to /usr/share/doc/packages/eclipe, along with a Readme file
that said this:
Hi,
eclipse has been splitted into the following subpackages:
eclipse-platform 3.0
eclipse-gtk2 3.0
eclipse-jdt 3.0
eclipse-source 3.0
eclipse-pde 3.0
eclipse-scripts 3.0
libswt3-gtk2 3.0
All of which is fine, there they sit.
So thinking we could not possibly be done yet, I went to these guys, clicked on
them, and tried to install with Yast,
but Yast behaved very strangely. If I tried anything other than the platform, it
gave me all kinds of
dependency errors. That made sense, I guess, but if I tried to install the
platform RPM, it would try to install and
give me a failed media indication and seemed to be looking and not finding CD1.
I have no idea how to proceed.
Prior to this, I downloaded the Linux version of Eclipse from Eclipse.org, again
on my windows box,
and burned it to a CD.
But I am having trouble unzipping, I get some kind of I/O error.
Is the result of moving the tar from windows to Linux?
If anybody has any suggestions, would it appreciate it very much.
Sorry to be a pest, I am trying. :-)
Regards,
Ned Walthall
nwalthall@comcast.net