Re: How to install Eclipse 3.5 on Debian 5 (lenny) stable release ?

[Mathias <m9236@abc.se>]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tsang Kim Wai wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>      I am a newbie in Debian and have just installed Debian 5 (lenny) stable
> release. I have used "apt-get install eclipse" to install a version of
> eclipse into my system and that version runs well.
>
>      However, later I find that the installed version of eclipse is 3.2 and
> I would like to install the current eclipse release 3.5 as an alternative of
> eclipse 3.2.
>
>      I find that eclipse 3.5 Linux version
> (eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz) could be downloaded from the
> eclipse site but I do not know how to install it into Debian to make it
> co-exist with the older eclipse 3.2.
I see that version 3.4.11 is in sid/unstable:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/eclipse

I guess that could be installed, without too much effort, it has a few
dependencies though. I was hoping to find 3.5 in experimental, but no such
luck. A tar.gz archive like the one you mention above is not that hard to
install either, it's not not as easy as just using apt-get or dpkg. I guess
you could unpack it (tar -zxcf) in /usr/local somewhere and try. That can't 
damaged anything. :)

Mat