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Equinox p2 director application/Examples/Install into eclipse using SDKProfile
To install the GMF SDK and all its prereqs from the Ganymede Update site into the default eclipse/ folder (using the built-in SDKProfile), run this. This matches the p2 Update UI's default behaviour.
- !/bin/bash
workspace=/tmp/workspace-clean-34 eclipseroot=~/eclipse/34clean/p2director installTargetFeatureGroup=org.eclipse.gmf.sdk.feature.group bundlepoolDir=$eclipseroot/${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 $bundlepoolDir \ -profile SDKProfile -profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=true \ -p2.os linux -p2.ws gtk -p2.arch x86 \ -vmargs \ -Declipse.p2.data.area=$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.