Re: I can't install eclipse
* David Rosenstrauch <david.rosenstrauch@aleri.com> wrote:
>> deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
>> apt-get source -b eclipse-sdk
>> dpkg -i ../*deb
> Sounds a bit complicated, though, as I'm running Woody too. (And I'm too
> chicken to install from source.)
It isn't complicated :) you maybe need some -dev packages, but this
can be resolved with calling
apt-get build-dep eclipse-sdk
before making the apt-get source call. After that, eclipse will be
build from source (takes about 10 minutes on my 1GHz/512MB box) and
then you have the debs in the 'one level down' dir.
I do that all them time, when I want some newer programms, like
spamassassin, which are simply out of date in woody. Additonally, it
is only 39 MB instead of nearly 70 from the regular drops (and
unfortunatelly debs as well :( )
It may be a bit unfamiliar the first time, but this is really
usefull...
Jan
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