Installing Eclipse
The install is very simple (in fact there is no install program as such) all we need to do is extract the files into the required directory, as follows:
- download the code for your platform (I am using eclipse-SDK-3.1-linux-gtk-x.86_64.tar.gz on this page but the other versions are very similar) from the eclipse site here.
- extract the 'eclipse' folder from this file into: /usr/share directory
- drag /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse to desktop and set to link
Notes:
- You need to have a java JDK already installed on your system (I suggest JDK5 or later) which you can get from Sun here.
- I suggest using eclipse version 3.1 at least because it has better support for native libraries and so it supports JOGL.
- I competely removed the previous 3.0 version of eclipse from my computer before doing this.
- For information about the configuration of my system see this page.
Then click on the desktop icon to get the following:
When we accept this we get the following 'welcome' project:
Installing Plugins
We now want to install plugins for the langages and toolkits that we want to use:
Menu -> Help -> Software Updates
- http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/
- http://www.scala-lang.org/scala-eclipse-plugin
I have installed plugins for:
- Scala
- RCP
- GMF
- GEF
- EMF
Note:
with openSUSE it may need to be started with:
GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse
