Equinox p2 director application/Examples/Install into dropins
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To install the GMF SDK and all its prereqs from the Ganymede Update site directly into the dropins folder, run this:
#!/bin/bash
workspace=/tmp/workspace-clean-34
eclipseroot=~/eclipse/34clean/p2director
installTargetFeatureGroup=org.eclipse.gmf.sdk.feature.group
bundlepoolDir=$eclipseroot/eclipse/dropins/${installTargetFeatureGroup}/eclipse
pushd $eclipseroot >/dev/null
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
rm -fr eclipse $workspace $bundlepoolDir
eclipse=eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Unpack $eclipse ...";
tar xzf $eclipse
fi
vm=/opt/sun-java2-5.0/bin/java
#vm=/opt/ibm-java2-5.0/bin/java
echo ""
echo "Using: vm=$vm and workspace=$workspace";
echo "Installing: ${installTargetFeatureGroup}";
echo "Destination: $bundlepoolDir";
echo ""
echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Running p2.director ... ";
# -console -noexit -debug
./eclipse/eclipse -vm $vm -nosplash \
-data $workspace -consolelog -clean \
-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director.app.application \
-metadataRepository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede \
-artifactRepository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede \
-installIU ${installTargetFeatureGroup} \
-destination $eclipseroot \
-bundlepool $bundlepoolDir \
-profile ${installTargetFeatureGroup}.profile \
-profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=true \
-p2.os linux -p2.ws gtk -p2.arch x86 \
-vmargs \
-Declipse.p2.data.area=$eclipseroot/eclipse/p2 \
-Xms128M -Xmx256M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
echo "Installed sizes: "; du -shc $eclipseroot/eclipse $bundlepoolDir
echo "";
echo -n "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Starting Eclipse workbench (to verify installation) ...";
# -console -noexit -debug
./eclipse/eclipse -vm $vm \
-data $workspace -consolelog -clean \
-vmargs \
-Xms128M -Xmx256M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
popd >/dev/null
echo " done."
If you need to translate this to Windows command syntax or wrap it with an Ant script, see Starting Eclipse Commandline With Equinox Launcher.

