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how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #646856] Sat, 01 January 2011 10:26 Go to next message
Tom Peters is currently offline Tom Peters
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I try to install eclipse on my iMac. There is elaborate documentation on how to use Eclipse but I found no info on how to install it on specifically an iMac.

Also I could not find a .dmg with a proper .app .

What I could download is a tarball of Eclipse Helios JEE for Mac OSX Cocoa x86 64 bit. I would be able to unpack it in my private directories, but I rather would have it go into my normal Applications dir. That however requires su-ing to root, for which I have to break open my standard OSX install.

How am I supposed to install Eclipse?

Thanx,
Tom

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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #646877 is a reply to message #646856] Sat, 01 January 2011 18:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
J. Michael Dean, M.D. is currently offline J. Michael Dean, M.D.
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On 1/1/11 8:26 AM, tpeters@telfort.nl wrote:
> I try to install eclipse on my iMac. There is elaborate documentation
> on how to use Eclipse but I found no info on how to install it on
> specifically an iMac.
>
> Also I could not find a .dmg with a proper .app .
> What I could download is a tarball of Eclipse Helios JEE for Mac OSX
> Cocoa x86 64 bit. I would be able to unpack it in my private
> directories, but I rather would have it go into my normal Applications
> dir. That however requires su-ing to root, for which I have to break
> open my standard OSX install.
>
> How am I supposed to install Eclipse?
>
> Thanx,
> Tom
>
Not sure what you tried to do. Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads
from your iMac and you should see a screen filled with binary packages
ready to install on Mac OS X. Click on the desired distribution and
everything should be essentially automatic.

- Mike

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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #646909 is a reply to message #646856] Sun, 02 January 2011 22:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Rao Kat is currently offline Rao Kat
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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #647005 is a reply to message #646909] Mon, 03 January 2011 18:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tom Peters is currently offline Tom Peters
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Rao Kat,
It appears there are only tarballs, no .dmg's.
Get a proper tarball (I got eclipse-jee-helios-SR1-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar)

You may have to first install Xcode from your installations disks to get all Java and devel stuff.

You can install eclipse locally:
open a terminal, and cd ~/Development/ (assuming you have a devel dir).
type the command `tar xf ~/Downloads/eclipse-jee-helios-SR1-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar` (or wherever the tarball is)
This will unpack into an eclipse subdir. In it there is an eclipse.app . You can start it from there, or drag it to the toolbar.

Alternatively you can install it for the system:
Log in with an admin account, and open a terminal.
If you activated root, switch to root (`su -`).
Otherwise you should be able to use sudo: `sudo -l`.
cd /Applications
sudo tar xf ~/Downloads/eclipse-jee-helios-SR1-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar
Again you get an eclipse subdir.
When I did it ownership was all wrong, fix it:
`chmod -R root:wheel eclipse`

The eclipse application should now show up among applications in the eclipse subdir.

HTH,
Tom

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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #688325 is a reply to message #647005] Fri, 24 June 2011 08:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fgsanz is currently offline fgsanz
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A small correction, for changing the ownership do this:

chown -R root:wheel eclipse

not this:

chmod -R root:wheel eclipse

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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #830876 is a reply to message #646856] Wed, 28 March 2012 02:54 Go to previous message
Lee Courtney is currently offline Lee Courtney
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Registered: March 2012
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The install process outlined here: www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~cs5/install/eclipse-osx/index.html

worked quickly and easily to install Indigo Service Release 2 on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50d). Note that I only ran the instructions up thru the install, I did not go into the configuration instructions.

HTH - Lee C.

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