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The download page is misleading and or broken. If I go to eclipse.org/downloads, it tells me these are the downloads for "Eclipse Europa Fall Maintenance Packages - Linux x86_64", but it links me the 32Bit x86 versions. Further there's no ability to choose which distro you would like to download. The only links are for 32 Bit x86. I ended up going to a random mirror and thankfully they had auto-index on so I could download what I actually needed: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/20071103/ My suggestion would be to change the "Linux" download link to two links, a "Linux" link and then immediately following that an "(x86-64)" link. thanks, rektide
(In reply to comment #0) > My suggestion would be to change the "Linux" download link to two links, a > "Linux" link and then immediately following that an "(x86-64)" link. This is an easy fix ... feel like submitting a patch? :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/org.eclipse Look in www/downloads/content/en_index.php You'll want to use filelocation like this: fileLocation($packageInfo['classic']['linux-x64'])
> (In reply to comment #0) > > My suggestion would be to change the "Linux" download link to two links, a > > "Linux" link and then immediately following that an "(x86-64)" link. > > This is an easy fix ... feel like submitting a patch? > > :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/org.eclipse > Look in www/downloads/content/en_index.php Very eerie, I checked out the code and was looking to figure out how the variables for the main downloads ($javaDownload, $jeeDownload, $cDownload, $rcpDownload and $classicDownload) were generated to fix the default download to be x86-64 if you were identified as being a Linux x86-64 user. I never figured out how all the parts came together, but I hit up eclipse.org/downloads to see the current state of things and alacadabra these default download links were fixed for x86_64! Why cant more of my coding problems fix like this?! For the record, two days ago they were still linking me to 32Bit x86, even though the page properly pegged me as Linux x86-64. I have implemented the further enhancement described in the original bug report for the download page to allow the user to explicitly download x86-64 should they wish. I am unable to submit to CVS, so my changes are available at <a href="http://rektide.voodoowarez.com/2008/2/eclipse.en_index.php">rektide.voodoowarez.com/2008/2/eclipse.en_index.php</a>. The format is Linux (x86_64), with Linux linking 32-bit and x86_64 linking the x86_64. Thank you for the link to the repository, otherwise I would never have taken the minimal effort to do this.
apologies, please try http://rektide.voodoowarez.com/2008/2/eclipse.en_index.txt in the future i will make sure i verify my urls ahead of time.
(In reply to comment #2) > to see the current state of things and alacadabra these default download links > were fixed for x86_64! Why cant more of my coding problems fix like this?! > > For the record, two days ago they were still linking me to 32Bit x86, even > though the page properly pegged me as Linux x86-64. It's still that way, nothing was fixed. I use Linux x86_64 and I see the 32-bit downloads on the link on the right. > they wish. I am unable to submit to CVS, so my changes are available at <a > href="http://rektide.voodoowarez.com/2008/2/eclipse.en_index.php">rektide.voodoowarez.com/2008/2/eclipse.en_index.php</a>. Thanks for providing a fix. Can you please submit a patch to this bug? I can't use code from other sites. If you use Eclipse, you can simply use the Team > Create Patch. Otherwise, on Linux, you can use diff -u (unified diff). Thanks
*** Bug 207788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The new downloads page provides auto-detected OS download links as well as links for the 4 main platforms. Closing as FIXED.
