On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, 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.
I see that version 3.4.11 is in sid/unstable:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/eclipse
I guess that could be installed, without too much effort, it has a few
dependencies though. I was hoping to find 3.5 in experimental, but no such
luck. A tar.gz archive like the one you mention above is not that hard to
install either, it's not not as easy as just using apt-get or dpkg. I guess
you could unpack it (tar -zxcf) in /usr/local somewhere and try. That can't
damaged anything. :)
Mat