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Jan Hettich
Jan Hettich

Reputation: 9886

How to upgrade Eclipse from Galileo to Helios on Ubuntu (10.04)

From other related posts, the recommended "best practice" is to create a "parallel" installation of Eclipse 3.6 (Helios). But I wish it were that simple ...

On my system, the installation package for 3.5 (Galileo) seems to have distributed the Eclipse system files over many different file-system locations:

/usr/lib/eclipse
/usr/bin/eclipse
/usr/share/
/var/lib/dpkg/info/
/etc/eclipse.ini
~/.eclipse

It's not at all clear to me what a "parallel" installation would look like in this case. Can someone enlighten me?

Would I be better off just deleting everything other than my workspace files that appears to involve Eclipse, and try to do a clean install of Helios?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 848

Answers (1)

janhink
janhink

Reputation: 5023

I, personally, always download the ZIP package of Eclipse from eclipse.org and don't use the system's Eclipse package at all. It just makes everything cleaner. Then, when upgrading, I delete the old Eclipse folder, unzip the new one, and maybe keep options in eclipse.ini. The only difficulty is with the plugins but I keep links to the update sites so it's no big deal to download and install them again.

Upvotes: 2

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