Almost. Pydev can be installed directly from eclipse using its add-in manager, check out:
http://www.fabioz.com/pydev/manual_101_root.html
In addition, I had to install pyx in a "Non Debian way" because
it defaults to having TeTeX as a dependency and I use texlive which is
a more complete and flexible TeX installation. You can retrieve
the .deb for texlive directly from CTAN:
deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/
deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/
>From my experience texlive is better for a single user install and
others have said that TeTeX is better for a multi-user server, but that
might change in the future as texlive is more modular so can be
installed as a working TeX installation with custom abilities and a
smaller footprint.
If you are seriously interested in getting away from emacs, try out Leo
(also hard to google). It is a very very useful program that I
use for EVERYTHING. It literally changed the way I compute.
You can download it from: (also not in Debian)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/
Or check out its homepage:
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html. Which includes testimonials such as:
"I think you're really showing what open source can do and your current
trajectory puts you on track to kick Emacs into the dustbin of
computing history." -- Dan Winkler
As a Debian USER (read weak programmer), I am not trying to advertise this program, only share what really works.