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  • Installing runnable Eclipse from Debian packages

    From Gervase@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 26 22:30:01 2023
    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.

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  • From Emmanuel Bourg@21:1/5 to Gervase on Mon May 1 10:20:01 2023
    Hi Gervase,

    The Debian project doesn't provide packages to install the Eclipse IDE,
    this is a complex software and we don't have enough volunteers to
    maintain it properly. However we do package some of the libraries
    developed by the Eclipse project since they are used by other
    applications (for example Tomcat uses the Eclipse JDT compiler, BiglyBT
    uses Eclipse SWT). That's why there are several eclipse-platform-*
    packages, but that doesn't mean you can install the Eclipse IDE from them.

    Emmanuel Bourg


    On 26/04/2023 22:01, Gervase wrote:
    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.


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  • From Steinar Bang@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 4 17:50:01 2023
    Gervase <[email protected]>:

    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).

    FWIW I've been running eclipse on debian desktops and laptops ince 2013.

    Initially I used the deb packaged version, but that was so antiquated
    compared to the current eclipse version at the time, that I moved to
    eclipse's own installer and have used that since then, installing under $HOME/eclipse/ (I am the only user on these debian systems anyway).

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