VE/Installing

Step by step installation of VE. Please edit me and add the steps. Thank!

Contributed by Chris Dolan:

I got it to work once I figured out the JEM stuff. In the end, these are the steps that worked for me.

Note: These are likely not the minimal steps, just one working solution.

1. Fully uninstall any old version of VE or JEM (not just disable)
2. via the Europa update site, install prerequisites for WTP:
   • org.eclipse.datatools
   • org.eclipse.wst
   • org.eclipse.jst
   • org.eclipse.jpt
3. Install the 3.0M1 milestone release of WTP SDK, which is the authoritative source of JEM 2.0.0:
   1. Go to http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/
   2. Click the 3.0M1 build
   3. Download the wtp-sdk zip
   4. Unpack the .zip file somewhere
   5. In that extracted folder, there is an "eclipse" subdir
   6. In that subdir, create a file called ".eclipseextension"
   7. In eclipse, go to Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration
   8. Click "Add an Extension Location"
   9. Select the WTP "eclipse" subdir from above
4. Install the build of VE:
   1. Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131065&package_id=154855
   2. Click "Visual Editor patched as in bug 202562"
   3. Click org.eclipse.visualeditor-1.3.0.200709121813.zip
   4. Unpack the .zip file somewhere
   5. In that extracted folder, there is an " org.eclipse.visualeditor-1.3.0.200709121813" subdir
   6. Rename that subdir to "eclipse"
   7. In that "eclipse" subdir, create a file called ".eclipseextension"
   8. In eclipse, go to Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration
   9. Click "Add an Extension Location"
   10. Select the VE "eclipse" subdir from above