Hi All,
Thanks for all your information. The eclipse 3.5 works OK.
But if I want to try one of Mathias suggestion to upgrade my old
eclipse 3.2 to eclipse 3.4 in the unstable release, then, in my
understanding, I would need to edit the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to
change any "lenny" keywork to "sid".
My sources.list file contains the following lines :
deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
contrib non-free
Then I think replacing all "lenny" to "sid" should change my Debian
system from stable to un-stable release so that I could upgrade eclipse 3.2
to eclipse 3.4 by running just "apt-get install eclipse". Is that the case ?
Alternatively, if I don't change my Debian system to un-stable release
through editing "sources.list", could I still upgrade my old eclipse 3.2 to
eclipse 3.4 in other way ?
Any comment / suggestion.
Regards
Lawrence
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Mathias <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tsang Kim Wai wrote:
>
> Hi Nick Douma, Liam O'Toole and Mathias,
>>
>> It works by simply extracting the downloaded Eclipse 3.5 binary file
>> into /usr/local/eclipse-3.5/ directory and then run the eclipse script
>> under
>> that directory. But I think, the eclipse 3.5 simple installation may
>> depend
>> on some configurations of my old eclipse 3.2 installation. That is, I may
>> not un-install eclipse 3.2 while expecting eclipse 3.5 would work
>> properly.
>> Is that the case ?
>>
>> Anyway, thank you for all your suggestions.
>>
>> Yeah, seeing how the apt system on debian mostly works to maintain and
> upgrade the packages to newer version, the 3.4 that is in unstable would
> replace the 3.2 one, unless some changes were made to the newer package.
>
> As mentioned earlier, creating a symlink in /usr/bin seems like a good idea
> too.
>
> Mat
