Installing Eclipse in Suse
 

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

When I installed eclipse I just unzipped. What command did you use to unzip the files? What was the some kind of I/O error?

The YAST install should be in Development->Tools->IDE part of the Package menu of the Software Installation module (Software -> Install and Remove Software).... Install from there.....

Should have said I obtained the tar from the Eclipse download site. i.e with no pre-packaging for your distro.

Many thanks.

I downloaded from eclipse as well and skipped the RPM and it works find.

Buggier than on windows though.

Best,

Ned

Hello nwalthall,

You might try from a root shell, using the 'yast -i' <packages> command. Include all of the rpm packages you need in the argument.

Another option is to add the cd you made as an additional installation source.

There is eclipse at opensuse software dot org
 

Here is the link to the 13.2 opensuse linux download of Eclipse.
https://software.opensuse.org/package/eclipse#
It uses yast and installs another package as needed for opensuse 13.2.
Problem sol ved as Peter Sellers would say.