How to install Eclipse?

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gbird · Post by **gbird** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:51 am

I reference gentoo wiki
emerge layman
emerge eix
layman -L
layman -a java
eix-update -a java

and I search eclipse package, No -bin package
so I emerge dev-util/eclipse-sdk

but occur one error
ERROR: Package hamcrest-core was not found!

but I emerge dev-java/hamcrest-core
and emerge dev-util/eclipse-sdk again
the error was occur again

can anybody help me?thanks

The Doctor · Post by **The Doctor** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:58 am

To be perfectly honest with you, the gentoo packaging for eclipse is just terrible. This derives from the fact that it is so hard to properly support. As far as I know all the ebuilds are hopelessly out of date.

If you want it for your own personal use I recommend simply downloading it directly into your home directory and running it from there. It won't be available to all users but you will have it and it will work.

What you should not do is try to manually do a global install. That will break things.

gbird · Post by **gbird** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 4:33 am

O......Thank you for your advice, I will try it.

timeraider · Post by **timeraider** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:40 pm

You may also take a look at the Eclipse overlay https://github.com/gentoo/eclipse-overlay. It has some more up-to-date versions of Eclipse.

CaptainBlood · Post by **CaptainBlood** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 1:40 am

Alternatively, here are some overlays:

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eix -I eclipse
[I] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin
     Available versions:  
     (4.4)  4.4.0[1] 4.4.1[1] 4.4.1-r1[1] ~4.4.2[2] 4.4.2-r2[1]
     (4.5)  4.5.0[1]
     Installed versions:  4.5.0(4.5)[1](15:50:56 15/12/2015)
     Homepage:            http://www.eclipse.org
     Description:         Eclipse SDK

[1] "jorgicio" /var/lib/layman/jorgicio
[2] "sabayon" /var/lib/layman/sabayon

Thks 4 ur attention.