Installing Eclipse/PDT

by jenny on 04 October 2007 - 06:45pm in
  • Install a semi-recent Sun JDK, making sure `which java` finds it. I used jdk1.5.0_06. (jdk1.6.0_01 does not work)
  • Download Eclipse 3.3.1 -- Debian/Ubuntu does not currently have a package for the most recent version.
  • Untar to /usr/local, mv eclipse to eclipse-3.3.1, ln -s /usr/local/eclipse-3.3.1/eclipse /usr/local/bin/
  • Open eclipse and run the Update Manager (Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install).
  • Add PDT as a new source with URL http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/
  • Check all three sources that are now listed and click find updates.
  • Select the entire PDT package on the next screen. It will complain of missing dependencies. See if they go away by clicking "select required". They won't.
  • Navigate to Europa Discovery Site -> Web and JEE Development -> Web Standard Tools (WST) Project. Check the box next to WST. This will also have missing dependencies. This time clicking "select required" does the trick.
  • Install selected plugins.