Hi Mat,
Thanks for your suggestion.
I have downloaded the "eclipse_3.4.1-1_i386.deb" file from the link you
provided. I am now finding information on installing this eclipse 3.4 using
"dpkg".
However, one point I want to be clear in advance is that would the
eclipse 3.4 installation using "dpkg" replaces / corrupts my old eclipse 3.2
installation. Moreover, the eclipse 3.4 ".deb" file has just 120KB size. Is
that reasonable with such a big application ?
Thanks for any suggestion.
Regards
Lawrence
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Mathias <m9...@abc.se> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tsang Kim Wai wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am a newbie in Debian and have just installed Debian 5 (lenny)
>> stable
>> release. I have used "apt-get install eclipse" to install a version of
>> eclipse into my system and that version runs well.
>>
>> However, later I find that the installed version of eclipse is 3.2
>> and
>> I would like to install the current eclipse release 3.5 as an alternative
>> of
>> eclipse 3.2.
>>
>> I find that eclipse 3.5 Linux version
>> (eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz) could be downloaded from the
>> eclipse site but I do not know how to install it into Debian to make it
>> co-exist with the older eclipse 3.2.
>>
>> I see that version 3.4.11 is in sid/unstable:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/eclipse
>
> I guess that could be installed, without too much effort, it has a few
> dependencies though. I was hoping to find 3.5 in experimental, but no such
> luck. A tar.gz archive like the one you mention above is not that hard to
> install either, it's not not as easy as just using apt-get or dpkg. I guess
> you could unpack it (tar -zxcf) in /usr/local somewhere and try. That can't
> damaged anything. :)
>
> Mat
