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Understanding "updates" to eclipse + features + plugins + installed software [message #879229]

Wed, 30 May 2012 20:01

Chris Stankevitz

Messages: 52
Registered: September 2011

Member

Hello,

I use linux 64-bit eclipse.

I installed eclipse 3-4 months ago by unzipping a large .tar.gz that was entitled something like "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components)"

Possibly complicating matters, I also needed a bugfix to something called "autotools support for CDT (incubation)" and somehow installed a nightly build of this component. But please feel free to ignore this point it it causes difficulty in providing an answer to my question below.

Today I started eclipse and selected Help | Check For Updates. To my surprise, eclipse responded with the message "No updates were found."

Q1: Has eclipse provided any updates in the past 3-4 months?

Q2: If yes, then why doesn't Help | Check For Updates report anything?

Q3: Which, if any, of these items does Help | Check for Updates check:
- Eclipse itself
- Eclipse "Installed Software" (whatever that is)
- Eclipse "Features" (whatever those are)
- Eclipse "Plug-ins" (also not sure what these are)

Q4: How can I update these parts of eclipse:
- Eclipse itself
- Eclipse "Installed Software"
- Eclipse "Features"
- Eclipse "Plug-ins"
- [your idea here]

Thank you very much! I love eclipse and have been using it every day!

Chris

PS: For your pleasure, I have attached my configuration

Attachment: eclipse-config.txt
(Size: 495.10KB, Downloaded 321 times)

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Re: Understanding "updates" to eclipse + features + plugins + installed software [message #879383 is a reply to message #879229]

Thu, 31 May 2012 05:34

Nitin Dahyabhai

Messages: 4434
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Q1: no, you are likely already running the latest simultaneous release package.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Simultaneous_Release

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Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

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Re: Understanding "updates" to eclipse + features + plugins + installed software [message #879701 is a reply to message #879383]

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:07

Chris Stankevitz

Messages: 52
Registered: September 2011

Member

Nitin,

Thank you for the link. I am indeed using the current release.

I'll assume that these items are also at their current release:
- Eclipse "Installed Software"
- Eclipse "Features"
- Eclipse "Plug-ins"

Chris

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