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A Recent Eclipse On Debian

Eclipse is WAY outdated on debian. Even the unstable release ships a basically unmodified version since 3 years.

So today I decided to remove the ancient version -- which did not start anyway -- and try the new nice release from eclipse.org:

And, hey... It works like a charm. The only downside is, that it will run in a local directory in your home directory. But that could be fixed my installing in /opt and including it into the default path.

Just for completness: Heres how it installs. (It really child-play)

• purge the old version of eclipse (just to make sure, might not be needed...)
• purge the gcj (which might cause problems) and install another java runtime (like openjdk-6-jre or the sun-java-6-jre) See the virtual package java-runtime for options. (Eclipse tell you, if it won't like your choice on startup)
• get the new version. I used this torrent for CDT.
• untar it (will create its eclipse directory)
• cd eclipse && ./eclipse