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Installing JDK 8 and Eclipse on porteus?
Posted: 11 Jan 2016, 16:24
by Jacoby59
Someone help me install JDK 8 and
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers on 32bit Porteus 3.0. Thanks
Re: Installing JDK 8 and Eclipse on porteus?
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 17:14
by killermenpl
Follow instructions
here, then extract eclipse somewhere (preferably your desktop) and symlink the jre folder from
or
(depends if you have 32bit system or 64bit)
to the folder where eclipse executable is located. It should work fine
Re: Installing JDK 8 and Eclipse on porteus?
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 13:20
by Jacoby59
Sorry, noob here. I've downloaded and activated jre-8u66-i586-1.xzm from the links provided on the thread that you linked, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here. I found
this thread and here slaxmax says that for JDK I'll have to download an additional file (jdk-8u66-linux-i586.tar.gz) along with the jre-8u66-linux-i586.tar.gz. I've downloaded that as well. Now, should I simply convert jdk-8u66-linux-i586.tar.gz to xzm and activate it? Or is there something else that I should do?
As for the Eclipse part, I've downloaded and extracted it but I have no idea how to symlink a folder
EDIT: I learned how to symlink directories but I can't find a jre folder inside the /usr/lib/java. The only folders there are bin, lib, man & plugin.
Re: Installing JDK 8 and Eclipse on porteus?
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 14:29
by killermenpl
You have to download the jdk, not jre. The javabuilder does work and makes a jdk module, which contains jre. Just deactivate and delete jre module. You will have jre folder then. Symlinking is very easy. Just drag&drop the folder using right mouse button instead of left mouse button.
Re: Installing JDK 8 and Eclipse on porteus?
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 14:54
by Jacoby59
It works now! Thanks!