Re: I can't install eclipse
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 10:24 am, Jan Schulz wrote:
> * David Rosenstrauch <david.rosenstrauch@aleri.com> wrote:
> > 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 spamassassin, which are simply out of date in woody.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
Fair enough. I'll definitely give it a shot one day then when I have some
more time.
Thanks for the suggestion!
DR
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