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how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #646856]

Sat, 01 January 2011 15:26

Tom Peters

Messages: 11
Registered: January 2011

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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 23:05

J. Michael Dean, M.D.

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Registered: July 2009

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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]

Mon, 03 January 2011 03:46

Rao Kat

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Registered: January 2011
Location: Houston, TX

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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #647005 is a reply to message #646909]

Mon, 03 January 2011 23:39

Tom Peters

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Registered: January 2011

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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 12:42

fgsanz

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Registered: June 2011

Junior Member

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 06:54

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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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #1060631 is a reply to message #830876]

Mon, 27 May 2013 12:00

Evgeniy Polyak

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Registered: May 2013

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Lee Courtney wrote on Wed, 28 March 2012 02:54

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.

Hi,

does not work Sad

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dialog writen - The program «Eclipse» can not be opened because its author is an unidentified developer.

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Re: how to install Eclipse on Mac OSX? [message #1060792 is a reply to message #1060631]

Tue, 28 May 2013 12:49

Nitin Dahyabhai

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Registered: July 2009

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That's a security permission problem/feature introduced with Lion. You can right-click on Eclipse.app in the Finder and Open it with a prompt to confirm, or change the setting from the "Security & Privacy" pane in the System Preferences.

I would recommend not putting Eclipse in the system Applications folder regardless.

_
Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

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