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Equinox p2 director application/Examples/Install into dropins
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 arc=`uname -m` eclipseTarGz=eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz pushd $eclipseroot >/dev/null if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then rm -fr eclipse $workspace $bundlepoolDir echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Unpack $eclipseTarGz ..."; tar xzf $eclipseTarGz fi vm=/opt/sun-java2-5.0/bin/java #vm=/opt/ibm-java2-5.0/bin/java echo "" echo "Using: vm=$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 \ -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 $arc \ -vmargs \ -Declipse.p2.data.area=$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.