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== Installation ==
Getting and installing Eclipse used to be a lot more difficult than it is today. In late 2008, it is '''still''' not as simple as <code>sudo apt-get install eclipse</code>. You can do that, but '''the installed version will be 3.2, which dates from 2006 and '''will fail to meet requirements for recent modules like PDT'''. What's worse, the eclipse system can NOT upgrade itself. See '''https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseIDE ''' for more accurate help in installing Eclipse. The short instructions are to install a Java Virtual Machine (which you can use synaptic or apt-get for) and to '''download''' Eclipse and install it manually.
In spite of any relative ease compared to the way it was "back in the day" (when just installing Java took about a decade and three lawyers), it's a large project, with Java as a dependency and many applications that you can install on top of the framework. So, an exact description of how to get setup is important. In addition to the foregoing details, http://groups.drupal.org/node/6261 describes how to get yourself setup with a completely free development environment. It starts with Ubuntu (the Debian-based desktop distribution) and ends with configuring Eclipse for working with Drupal coding standards. (Now nicknamed appropriately 'Drubuntu'.)
The http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation site offers good details on getting a clean and fully updated installation working, especially if you have particular needs for an older version.
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