Michael Gall - Internet Marketing and SEO Consultant - Melbourne » eclipse http://wakeless.net Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:40:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eclipse Documentation and installing Plugins http://wakeless.net/archive/2006/01/eclipse-documentation-and-installing-plugins http://wakeless.net/archive/2006/01/eclipse-documentation-and-installing-plugins#comments Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:00:00 +0000 http://wakeless.net/wordpress/?p=113 I installed Ubuntu on my desktop in the hope that I can setup a really good development environment. So far it has turned out to be quite good to develop PHP websites, except for the constant battle I’m fighting with Eclipse.

First of all, the documentation for install plugins is hopeless, if not non-existent. There is a built-in plugin manager to Eclipse which, on Windows seems to work quite well, (though it could do with some usability tweaks) but on Linux is almost useless.

I’m sure that it is possible to install plugins into your home drive for only your usage, however how, I’m not quite sure. The only way I have been able to install plugins is as root, by running Eclipse with the super-user and installing with the plugin manager, or putting the zipped plugins in the plugin/feature directory in the Eclipse install directory.

I love Eclipse, but this has really caused me alot more grief than it should have, considering it is supposed to be a platform to be built upon.

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