Eclipse installation

[Eric SCHAEFFER]

Le lundi 27 septembre 2004 à 18:48 -0400, Scott Litvinoff a écrit :
> Hello,

Hi

> I'm wanting to install the Eclipse SDK to my Ubuntu installation, but
> was surprised to discover that section universe does not contain a
> package for eclipse-sdk, though the Debian servers contain a packaging
> of it, at least in the unstable stream under the contrib section.
> Anyway, most of my previous experience has been with RPM based
> distributions (mainly Red Hat), as opposed to apt based distros, and
> so I'm wondering what you folks think my best course of action is as
> far as installing Eclipse goes.  I could:

I've got the same pb ;)
I was on Debian sid before, and I installed manually Eclipse from
eclipse.org site (Debian packages were and are still too old).

Now that I switch to Ubunto, with a nice and beautiful installation ;),
I was thinking about creating my own Eclipse package.
But if it could be done by a "packaging expert", it would be great.

Eric

> 1. Download the Eclipse 3.01 binaries from eclipse.org and install
> them.  The disadvantage here is that now apt is unaware of the
> existence of this "package", and so may feel free to overwrite /
> remove / whatever the associated files at will.
>  
> 2. Add the Debian packaging hierarchy to my sources.list file, and
> download package eclipse-sdk using apt-get.  This seems to have
> multiple disadvantages, e.g. the Debian package does not seem to be
> the newest version of Eclipse, and the Ubuntu FAQ seems to indicate
> that mixing Debian built and Ubuntu built packages might not produce
> the most desirable of outcomes, but has the advantage that I will get
> "automatic" updates of Eclipse.
>  
> 3. Download the .deb files explicitly from the Debian servers and then
> use dpkg to install them.  This mitigates the second disadvantage of
> option 2, but not the first, and loses the advantage associated with
> that option.
>  
> So, that said, do you experts out there have any suggestion as to
> which way I should go?  How I might follow option 1 but still keep apt
> in the loop (with a minimum of extra fuss)?  Suggestions I go soak my
> head and leave everyone alone?
>  
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>  
> - Scott