Installing PDT is relatively easy.
Install a JVM
Regardless of your operating system, you will need to install a Java virtual machine.
- If using Windows, you may already have one installed, but upgrading won't hurt.
- If using Linux, read this -- GCJ will NOT work.
Consider an IBM JDK or a Sun JDK. See below for minimum requirements. Note that if you are on a 64-bit platform and are using a 64-bit JRE, you need to use a 64-bit Eclipse build.
Eclipse 3.4 / Ganymede / PDT 2.0
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From Update Site
dltk=$(find . -name "dltk-core-*-incubation.zip"); unzip -qq -d ${dltk}_ ${dltk}
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- If you want to use the Eclipse updater, go into the Updater, click on the "Available Software" tab, click the "Manage sites" button on the right, click the checkbox next to "Web Tools (WTP) update sitee", click "OK", then in the "Available Software" tab, in "Web Tools (WTP) Update Site", install the latest Web Tools Platform - (currently "Web Tools Platform 3.0.2").
pdt=$(find . -name "org.eclipse.php_feature-*.zip"); unzip -qq -d ${pdt}_ ${pdt}
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- Start the Install Manager.
Help > Software Updates... > Available Software
Add Site... > add the Ganymede Update site (if not already listed): http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/
Add Site... > Local > add the unpacked folder: .../dltk-core-*-incubation.zip_
Add Site... > Local > add the unpacked folder: .../org.eclipse.php_feature-*.zip_
Add Site... > Local > add the unpacked folder: .../wtp-*.zip_
Press "Refresh"
Select the Dynamic Languages Toolkit - Core Frameworks Feature
Select the PDT Feature
Select the WTP Feature
Install...
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From Zips
- Download the latest PDT 2.0 build + all its listed dependencies, including Eclipse.
- Save this script as
pdt.sh
. The first time, run it like this to create a clean PDT install: ./pdt.sh clean
; on subsequent restarts, just run ./pdt.sh
#!/bin/bash
vm=/opt/sun-java2-5.0/bin/java
eclipse=eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
workspace=~/eclipse/pdt-dev/workspace
pushd ~/eclipse/pdt-dev >/dev/null
if [[ $1 == "clean" ]]; then
rm -fr eclipse;
echo "Unpack $eclipse..."; tar xzf $eclipse
for f in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.zip"); do
echo "Unpack $f ..."; unzip -qq $f -d eclipse/dropins/${f/.zip/}
done
fi
echo "Using vm=$vm and workspace=$workspace"; ./eclipse/eclipse -vm $vm -data $workspace \
-vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx256M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M \
-consolelog -clean -debug -console -noexit
popd >/dev/null
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Helpful Links
Eclipse 3.3 / Europa / PDT 1.0
- If one exists for your platform (operating system, windowing system, architecture), the simplest way to install PDT is via an All-In-One bundle.
- If installing on Linux, you can look for a package from your distro maintainter/repositories, but this is not supported by eclipse.org. If you encounter problems with such a bundle, please contact your distro maintainer.
- Otherwise, download an Eclipse SDK or Runtime Binary or the Europa JEE Bundle, then unpack it.
- Expand the Europa Discovery site to resolve dependencies. Collapsed sites will not be searched.
- Select the PDT feature(s) you want to install.
- Click the Select Required button to resolve missing dependencies.
- Install*. Restart. Enjoy.
Eclipse 3.2 / Callisto / PDT 0.7
- If installing on Linux, you can look for a package from your distro maintainter/repositories, but this is not supported by eclipse.org. If you encounter problems with such a bundle, please contact your distro maintainer.
- Otherwise, download an Eclipse SDK or Runtime Binary, then unpack it and start it up.
- Select the projects &/or components you want to install.
- Expand the Callisto Updates site to resolve dependencies. Collapsed sites will not be searched.
- Select the PDT feature(s) you want to install.
- Click the Select Required button to resolve missing dependencies.
- If it does not work, you will have to manually select dependencies.
- If that doesn't work, start over, but add more update sites. Can't find a given dependency? Try here or here.
- Install*. Restart. Enjoy.
Known Problems
- You may find that your chosen mirror fails due to bug 203794. Until that bug is fixed, try another mirror, or try an FTP site instead of an HTTP site.
- You may encounter problems on linux with non-existant cups servers in
/etc/cups/client.conf
(bug 242677). Try running with ./eclipse -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.disablePrinting
.
- You may encounter this error message: Problem occurred: 'Selection Job titile' has encountered a problem. If so, you need to install DLTK 1.0.I200807181303 (or newer). Unpack the zip into your dropins folder (see From Zips above). See also bug 242947.
- Another variation reported to work: PDT 2.0.0 N20080823 + DLTK Core 0.95.0.v20080716 + DLTK RDS 0.95.0.v20080623
- If updating from a nightly build to a newer nightly, you will need to uninstall and then reinstall PDT. See bug 241341.