How do I upgrade to eclipse 3.1 on SUSE9.3

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mjb - 07 Jul 2005 10:32 GMT

I would like to upgrade from eclipse 3.0 (which comes with SUSE9.3) to
eclipse 3.1

Is it just a matter of going to eclipse.org and downloading
eclipse_sdk_3.1_linux_gtk_x86_64.tar.gz and then unpacking these files to
replace the files in /usr/share/eclipse ?
(I am using an athlon 64bit system)

This download has the following warning:
"This build requires a 64 bit JVM. It will not run with a 32 bit JVM. You
can for example download Sun 64 bit 1.5 JVM for AMD64. Note that Sun 1.4.2
JVM for AMD64 is 32 bit and cannot be used to run this build."

SUSE9.3 comes with 1.4.2 but there is also a 1.5.0 version not yet
installed. How do I switch to use jvm 1.5 ? are there any configuration
files that I have to edit to do this? Or would it be better to download the
32bit version of eclipse?

Thanks,

Martin

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mjb - 08 Jul 2005 19:23 GMT

> I would like to upgrade from eclipse 3.0 (which comes with SUSE9.3) to
> eclipse 3.1
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> Martin

I've managed to do it, to answer my own question, it was easier than I
thought.

I just installed JDK1.5 and then downloaded
eclipse_sdk_3.1_linux_gtk_x86_64.tar.gz and then unpacked these files to
/usr/share/eclipse

I did not need to tell eclipse which jdk to use. I thought that some
configuration would be needed but obviously not.

Martin

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mjb - 09 Jul 2005 10:09 GMT

>> Martin
>
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>
> Martin

I spoke too soon, when I try to compile a program eclipse crashes, can
anyone suggest how I can find the reason?
When the program crashes it stops just showing a dialog box with title
'error' and contents:

/usr/lib64/jvm/java/bin/java
-Xms64M
-Xmx256M
-jar
/usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-os
linux
-ws
gtk
-arch
x86_64
-launcher
/usr/share/eclipse/eclipse
-name
Eclipse
-showsplash
600
-exitdata
160005
-data
/home/martin/workspace/
-vm
/usr/lib64/jvm/java/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms64M
-Xmx256M
-jar
/usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar

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IchBin - 09 Jul 2005 14:33 GMT

>>> Martin
>> I've managed to do it, to answer my own question, it was easier than I
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> -jar
> /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar

You may want to ask these questions in the Eclipse newsgroups at
news.eclipse.org

Say eclipse.platform or eclipse.newcommer

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Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA
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