Installing Eclipse

[Jascha Wetzel]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 10/1/07, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Are there any detailed instructions on how to get Eclipse running,
>> starting from scratch, anywhere? If so, can you point me to them?
> 
> Sorry, I meant *Descent*, not Eclipse. (Although obviously installing
> Descent may require installing Eclipse first).
> 
> Also - will this require installing the Java Runtime too? Coz if so,
> that's just too much bloat, and I'll stick with my syntax-highlighting
> text editor.

the java-developer package will do for descent (the classic or c++ dev 
packages, too, i suppose).
eclipse is a java application, it therefore needs the runtime (as noted 
on the download page).