Archive for November, 2007
HOWTO: Install
After a slew of “my distro’s Eclipse package has some wierd behaviour” questions in #eclipse today, plus “how do I install PDT?” for the umpteenth time, I decided to refactor my previous FAQ answer and also spin off an Eclipse-only version. Why am I bothering you with this bit of trivia? Because I want to [...]
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You got 3.4 in your 3.3!
Damn. While I did manage to get PDT 1.0 to run on 3.4, I managed to break Update Manager because:
In 3.3.1.1, I now have a working Mylyn 2.2 which prereqs 3.4 (so can’t be updated, but does work). This prevents any other updates, like PDT 1.0 -> 1.0.1.
In 3.4, I have EMF 2.4, WTP 3.0 [...]
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Liberate tutume ex illa sollicitudo
Addendum to this morning’s post:
As Ed correctly points out, Ganymede M3 is not a Release in the sense of a it being a Gold Master (GM) though it is generally available (GA) if you know where to look.
However, all the synonyms I’ve found have odd connotations associated with them…
Emancipation? Say it with me in [...]
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Ganymede M3: First Impressions
With M3’s release just around the corner, it was time to try it out and attempt to install the updates to all my 3.3-compliant plugins. I decided to use Sun’s Java 6 runtime. Here’s a log of the experience:
Unpack eclipse-SDK-3.4M3-linux-gtk.tar.gz into /home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse34/, by hand or with this script.
Copy existing Eclipse 3.3-based .link files into /home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse34/links/:
eclipse-plugins-tweaklets.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins-tweaklets
eclipse-plugins-pdt.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins-pdt
eclipse-plugins.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins
eclipse-plugins-mylyn.link
path=/home/nickb/eclipse/eclipse-plugins-mylyn
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