Currently, I have access to the packages 'eclipse'/'eclipse-platform' on
Ubuntu. Having either installed then allows additional packages/plug-
ins to be installed for the various computer languages (e.g. JDT, CDT,
pydev).
With a view to moving to Debian, I looked through the debian-java
mailing list archive and noticed the package 'eclipse-platform-runtime'
mentioned in a post from mid-January 2023. However, it is not a package
for installing a directly runnable Eclipse platform.
Looking at "https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse";, there is no mention of
installing Debian packages to install Eclipse. In fact, in the history
of edits to the wiki page, I found the following dated 2019-10-04:
"eclipse can not be installed as package in the current stable, not even
as backport, download from originating page is only option left..."
To me, not being able to install Eclipse using Debian packages does not
square with the fact that 'eclipse-platform-runtime' exists.
Therefore, what is the how-to with regards to installing Eclipse using
only Debian packages? In other words, how to make it so that the
Eclipse wiki page has valid instructions for installing Eclipse using
only Debian packages.
Thanks,
Gervase.