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Why would you need a package for Eclipse. Download it is a ZIP, extract it in the location of your choice and run it from there. (Portable app) I have been usi
by qpiox 6y ago
Why would you need a package for Eclipse. Download it is a ZIP, extract it in the location of your choice and run it from there. (Portable app)
I have been using it like that almost every day for 15 years now.
- rjsw 6y agoEclipse isn't portable, somebody has to compile it for Linux, it just comes down to whether you want that done by the Eclipse Foundation or Debian people.
- qpiox 6y agoThe discussion here was about why a debian package for Eclipse is not up to date. My theory is that it is obviously because there is a way how to run Eclipse, without any issues and without the need of an officially tested debian package, so there is not huge demand.
- rjsw 6y agoThat would be fine if Linux preserved backwards compatibility, the glibc version change last year meant that some binary packages no longer run. Something like Netbeans doesn't need a debian package but Eclipse is split into lots of jar files that each depends on some shared libraries.