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Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 9:39 PM Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >    westk@westkent64:~$
> >    i A eclipse-jdt - Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT)
> >    i A eclipse-pde - Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
> >    i A eclipse-platform - Eclipse platform without development plug-ins
> >    i A eclipse-platform-data - Eclipse platform without development
> plug-ins
> >    (data)
> (SNIP)
> >    westk@westkent64:~$ java --version
> >    openjdk 11 2018-09-25
> >    OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11+28-Debian-3)
> >    OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11+28-Debian-3, mixed mode, sharing)
> >    Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Kent,
>
> The Eclipse JDT package in Sid (version 3.8) came out nearly 6.5 years
> ago!  I doubt it if it will work with Java 11 and I would even be
> surprised if it worked with Java 8.
>
> Sadly, Eclipse is one piece of software that I have just never been able
> to find a satisfactory setup based on Debian packages.  I recommend you
> download the binary tarball from upstream, untar it in /opt and work
> with it from there.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sánchez
>
>

Thanks for your response, Roberto. That helps. I purged all I could find of
Eclipse, and then downloaded their installer from the eclipse.org website,
and then their "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers", and with a little
trial-and-error (their tutorial was a bit unclear), got a working "Hello,
World" program.

It's a start.

I do feel a little tainted, going outside of the Debian repositories for
software. But I understand that in the world of Free Software, there's not
always a volunteer available to maintain a package.

This moves me forward. Thanks!


-- 
Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-18 04:40 +0200
  Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-10-18 17:00 +0200
    Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-18 17:10 +0200
    Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-10-18 23:20 +0200

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