[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: How to keep an all-in-one up to date?

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt+eclipse+newsgroup@xxxxxxxxx>]

You have a few options.

a) Each time a new, updated all-in-one is made available, download it, 
unpack it, and point it at your existing workspace. Simple, 
self-contained, and no updating required. (Note that anything else 
you've installed into your Eclipse, like for debugging or other 
scripting support, will need to be reinstalled.)

b) From an existing installed all-in-one, load up the update site you 
like best (interim, milestones, or releases -- see 
http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/updates/ for the list) and install updates 
into your existing Eclipse. Restart when prompted.

c) Download a new, updated Update site zip. Unpack it. From an existing 
installed all-in-one, use the Install Manager to install the new plugins 
from the unpacked local update site. Restart when prompted.

d) Download a new, updated SDK or runtime zip. Unpack it into your 
existing Eclipse's dropins folder, eg., ~/eclipse/dropins/. Restart 
eclipse with the -clean flag, and be prepared to wait a bit as it finds 
the new dropins and loads them. (The purists might say that you should 
remove the old stuff in dropins/eclipse/plugins/*pdt* and 
dropins/eclipse/features/*pdt*, but you don't strictly have to.)

Bear in mind that you cannot update from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0, but you can 
move from 2.0.0 to 2.0.x. This is because 2.1.0 requires Eclipse 3.5, 
whereas 2.0.x require Eclipse 3.4. If you're simply replacing one 
all-in-one with another (option (a)) then you can move from 2.0 to 2.1 
because the all-in-ones also include the correct version of Eclipse.

HTH,

Nick

Jasmo Hiltula wrote:
> Dennis Verspuij wrote:
> > What is the recommended procedure to keep an all-in-one PDT installation
> > up to date? Should I check the downloads provided on
> > http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/downloads/page periodically and extract some
> > new *-Update.zip packages somewhere?
> > Or can "Automatic updates" do this for me? I do have it enabled but it
> > does for instance not come up with a 2.0.1 update for my 2.0.0GA
> > all-in-one. Must I setup additional sites or modify the "available
> > software sites"?
> This is absolutely valid question and i'd like good and deep answer on
> that also.

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