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

[Tsang Kim Wai <tkwinfo@gmail.com>]

Hi Nick Douma, Liam O'Toole and Mathias,

     It works by simply extracting the downloaded Eclipse 3.5 binary file into /usr/local/eclipse-3.5/ directory and then run the eclipse script under that directory. But I think, the eclipse 3.5 simple installation may depend on some configurations of my old eclipse 3.2 installation. That is, I may not un-install eclipse 3.2 while expecting eclipse 3.5 would work properly. Is that the case ?

     Anyway, thank you for all your suggestions.

Regards
Lawrence

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Nick Douma <n.douma@nekoconeko.nl> wrote:

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On 10-1-2010 5:25, 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.
>
>      Any suggestion ?
>
> Regards
> Lawrence
>

Seeing as you can already start and use Eclipse 3.2, upgrading to the
new 3.5 version would be as simple as downloading the archive from the
website (which you already did), and then extract it to a location of
your choice. You can then run ./eclipse from the extracted location. To
make this easier, you could symlink the executable to /usr/bin. AFAIK
the eclipse installation are self-contained, and don't bite the already
installed Eclipse 3.2
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