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Problem Installing PDT 2.2 in Eclipse 3.5

17 Apr

I use Ubuntu Linux and I liked Aptana but they dropped PHP support so I am switching to Eclipse (sorry, Netbeans looks ugly).

After installing Eclipse I need to install PDT but was having problem with the instruction on http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation (Eclipse 3.5 / Galileo / PDT 2.2.) … I didn’t want to download the zip file so I was doing it from the update site. I had to start Eclipse and:

  1. go to Windows–> Preference–> Install Updates–> Available Software Sites to add DLTK and PDT sites. Then
  2. go to Help –> Install New Software and pull down from the Work with menu as (not clearly) instructed to install PDT 2.2.

Oddly, it didn’t work for me. I then observed that on the Available Software Site instruction (http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation#From_Update_Site) there is this Galileo site and The Eclipse Project something site, whereas mine had nothing but the DLTK and PDT sites I added. No wonder it didn’t work with the PDT installation flow. So I found and added this Galileo link (http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo) from a nice blog by a nice galileo guy and add it to the Available Software Sites and Kaboom! I got it!! This should be installed automatically, but, hey!

Well, I work hard, so you don’t have to.

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…and later on I didn’t want to work so hard, so I switch back to Aptana, which looks more like a real piece of software…don’t mind me, I am a kindergarten student in programming.

 
 

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  1. Alexandre Magno

    June 30, 2010 at 18:23

    Eclipse use PDT 2.1.x…
    See “Eclipse 3.5 / Galileo / PDT 2.1″ topic in http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation.
    Eclipse Galileo Update Site: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo/