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

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2010-01-10, Tsang Kim Wai <tkwinfo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Mat,
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>      Thanks for your suggestion.
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>      I have downloaded the "eclipse_3.4.1-1_i386.deb" file from the link you
> provided. I am now finding information on installing this eclipse 3.4 using
> "dpkg".
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>      However, one point I want to be clear in advance is that would the
> eclipse 3.4 installation using "dpkg" replaces / corrupts my old eclipse 3.2
> installation. Moreover, the eclipse 3.4 ".deb" file has just 120KB size. Is
> that reasonable with such a big application ?

Installing the downloaded .deb file would upgrade your existing installation.
The file is small because its dependencies (eclipse-jdt, etc.) contain most of
the binaries. You would have to download and install those as well.

I think it would be easier to unpack the .tar.gz file. as others have suggested.

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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom