Hi Angus Hedger, Zhan and All,
Thanks for all the suggestions.
As upgrading to "un-stable" may not be reversible, I think I would be
happy to stay in the "stable" release with eclipse 3.2 and eclipse 3.5
installed. That's enough.
Regards
Lawrence
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Zhan <z...@games.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Angus Hedger <demide...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> Yes, as far as I know that would work, but if you are not careful you will
>> end up upgrading you'er whole system to sid (as someone who added unstable
>> sources to his Lenny install once by accident and ended up
>> in dependency hell with half the system upgraded and half not).
>>
>> Also sid is not recommended unless you are experienced with debian and
>> willing to fix it if everything breaks ;)
>>
>> So, I would recommended not changing your sources.list like that myself.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Angus.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Tsang Kim Wai <tkwi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your information. The eclipse 3.5 works OK.
>>>
>>> But if I want to try one of Mathias suggestion to upgrade my old
>>> eclipse 3.2 to eclipse 3.4 in the unstable release, then, in my
>>> understanding, I would need to edit the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to
>>> change any "lenny" keywork to "sid".
>>>
>>> My sources.list file contains the following lines :
>>>
>>> deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>>> deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>>>
>>> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>>>
>>> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
>>> contrib non-free
>>> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
>>> contrib non-free
>>>
>>> Then I think replacing all "lenny" to "sid" should change my Debian
>>> system from stable to un-stable release so that I could upgrade eclipse 3.2
>>> to eclipse 3.4 by running just "apt-get install eclipse". Is that the case ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Alternatively, if I don't change my Debian system to un-stable
>>> release through editing "sources.list", could I still upgrade my old eclipse
>>> 3.2 to eclipse 3.4 in other way ?
>>>
>>> Any comment / suggestion.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Lawrence
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Mathias <m9...@abc.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tsang Kim Wai wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Nick Douma, Liam O'Toole and Mathias,
>>>>>
>>>>> It works by simply extracting the downloaded Eclipse 3.5 binary
>>>>> file
>>>>> into /usr/local/eclipse-3.5/ directory and then run the eclipse script
>>>>> under
>>>>> that directory. But I think, the eclipse 3.5 simple installation may
>>>>> depend
>>>>> on some configurations of my old eclipse 3.2 installation. That is, I
>>>>> may
>>>>> not un-install eclipse 3.2 while expecting eclipse 3.5 would work
>>>>> properly.
>>>>> Is that the case ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, thank you for all your suggestions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, seeing how the apt system on debian mostly works to maintain and
>>>> upgrade the packages to newer version, the 3.4 that is in unstable would
>>>> replace the 3.2 one, unless some changes were made to the newer package.
>>>>
>>>> As mentioned earlier, creating a symlink in /usr/bin seems like a good
>>>> idea too.
>>>>
>>>> Mat
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> Hi there,
>
> yes, change your source list to Sid/unstable will help you to install 3.4
> in Debian way.
>
> A few suggestions though:
> 1: backup you current source list;
> 2: comment out security and volatile lines for Sid;
> 3: just upgrade eclipse and switch back to Lenny if you prefer staying in
> the stable/boring land and do a source list update immediately.
>
> --
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Zhan
>
