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Re: Installing runnable Eclipse from Debian packages

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Hi Gervase,

The Debian project doesn't provide packages to install the Eclipse IDE, 
this is a complex software and we don't have enough volunteers to 
maintain it properly. However we do package some of the libraries 
developed by the Eclipse project since they are used by other 
applications (for example Tomcat uses the Eclipse JDT compiler, BiglyBT 
uses Eclipse SWT). That's why there are several eclipse-platform-* 
packages, but that doesn't mean you can install the Eclipse IDE from them.

Emmanuel Bourg


On 26/04/2023 22:01, Gervase wrote:
> Currently, I have access to the packages 'eclipse'/'eclipse-platform' on
> Ubuntu.  Having either installed then allows additional packages/plug-
> ins to be installed for the various computer languages (e.g. JDT, CDT,
> pydev).
> 
> With a view to moving to Debian, I looked through the debian-java
> mailing list archive and noticed the package 'eclipse-platform-runtime'
> mentioned in a post from mid-January 2023.  However, it is not a package
> for installing a directly runnable Eclipse platform.
> 
> Looking at "https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse", there is no mention of
> installing Debian packages to install Eclipse.  In fact, in the history
> of edits to the wiki page, I found the following dated 2019-10-04:
> 
> "eclipse can not be installed as package in the current stable, not even
> as backport, download from originating page is only option left..."
> 
> To me, not being able to install Eclipse using Debian packages does not
> square with the fact that 'eclipse-platform-runtime' exists.
> 
> Therefore, what is the how-to with regards to installing Eclipse using
> only Debian packages?  In other words, how to make it so that the
> Eclipse wiki page has valid instructions for installing Eclipse using
> only Debian packages.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gervase.
> 

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Installing runnable Eclipse from Debian packages Gervase <gervase@group.force9.co.uk> - 2023-04-26 22:30 +0200
  Re: Installing runnable Eclipse from Debian packages Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2023-05-01 10:20 +0200
  Re: Installing runnable Eclipse from Debian packages Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> - 2023-05-04 17:50 +0200

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