Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Upgrading Eclipse after reinstalling Ubuntu

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Ubuntu repositories have Eclipse 3.2. I wanted a more recent version. I went to http://www.eclipse.org and downloaded the basic JEE packaging of Eclipse Galileo as a tarball.

Deleted the old ~/.eclipse directory. Unpacked the tarball into /home and changed the name of the top-level directory to ~/.eclipse. Changed /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop to point to the executable. Works fine.

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