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Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253359]

Mon, 07 April 2008 13:38

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: upendra249.gmail.com

Hello Everyone:

This is Upendra. I recently downloaded eclipse sdk 3.2.1 on Windows-XP. I
want to install eclipse in silent mode/non-interactive mode. Can anyone
please tell me how can I do that??

Thanks so much.

Best Regards,
-Upen-

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253373 is a reply to message #253359]

Mon, 07 April 2008 16:17

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Upen" <upendra249@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5c668e4e4f30839fd3e57ece00f14748$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello Everyone:
>
> This is Upendra. I recently downloaded eclipse sdk 3.2.1 on Windows-XP. I
> want to install eclipse in silent mode/non-interactive mode. Can anyone
> please tell me how can I do that??

Upendra, I'm not sure why, if you're installing now, you would use 3.2.1;
why not a more recent version, such as 3.3.2? 3.2.1 is more than a year old
and is missing a lot of bug fixes and feature improvements.

Ignoring that: Eclipse does not have an install program; you just unzip the
archive to whatever directory you want. So if your unzip tool has a silent
mode, that's what you would use. How to use it, of course, depends on what
unzip tool you are using.

Or are you asking something different than that?

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253375 is a reply to message #253373]

Mon, 07 April 2008 16:42

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: upendra249.gmail.com

Dear Harley thanks for replyIng..After unzipping the archive I am running
the eclIpse.exe file which is asking me to enter a workspace
dIrectory...when I specify a path and click ok It Installs...and the IDE
opens

what I want Is when I click on the eclIpse.exe It should not ask me to
enter any path for workspace directory or anything...It should create a
workspace directory on its own.....please let me know If I am clear

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253379 is a reply to message #253373]

Mon, 07 April 2008 16:43

Eclipse User

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253382 is a reply to message #253379]

Mon, 07 April 2008 16:59

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Upen wrote:
> Dear Harley thanks for replyIng..After unzipping the archive I am
> running the eclIpse.exe file which is asking me to enter a workspace
> dIrectory...when I specify a path and click ok It Installs...and the IDE
> opens
>
> what I want Is when I click on the eclIpse.exe It should not ask me to
> enter any path for workspace directory or anything...It should create a
> workspace directory on its own.....please let me know If I am clear
>

In that dialog, there is a checkbox that you can use to tell it not to
ask you again.
By the way, this is not "installation" of Eclipse - it is asking you
what workspace you want to use for this session. You should read the
help contents and learn about how Eclipse works, including workspaces.

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253477 is a reply to message #253382]

Tue, 08 April 2008 09:57

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: upendra249.gmail.com

Eric thanks for the reply...I have got a quick question...what should be
done to make eclipse take a default workspace directory instead of me
giving it manually, everytime I run the .exe files.

My actual question was...what should be done to make eclipse do everything
by itself without any user interaction?? The user only double clicks the
eclipse.exe file and the user will not specify any workspace directory
path, instead everything will be done by eclipse only.

Any inputs will be helpful...

Thanks

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253481 is a reply to message #253477]

Tue, 08 April 2008 10:33

Eclipse User

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:57:26 +0000 (UTC), upendra249@gmail.com (Upen)
wrote:

>Eric thanks for the reply...I have got a quick question...what should be
>done to make eclipse take a default workspace directory instead of me
>giving it manually, everytime I run the .exe files.
>
>My actual question was...what should be done to make eclipse do everything
>by itself without any user interaction?? The user only double clicks the
>eclipse.exe file and the user will not specify any workspace directory
>path, instead everything will be done by eclipse only.
>
>Any inputs will be helpful...
>
>Thanks

See
http://help.eclipse.org/help32/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm
in the section about selecting a workspace directory by modifiying the
eclipse.ini file (described for a Mac, but this will work on every
platform).

Achim
--
Achim Lörke

Eclipse-Stammtisch in the Braunschweig, Germany area:
http://www.bredex.de/de/career/eclipse.html

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253505 is a reply to message #253477]

Tue, 08 April 2008 12:41

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Upen" <upendra249@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7fb5608c7cddc10ed94bd9887926399b$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Eric thanks for the reply...I have got a quick question...what should be
> done to make eclipse take a default workspace directory instead of me
> giving it manually, everytime I run the .exe files.
> My actual question was...what should be done to make eclipse do everything
> by itself without any user interaction?? The user only double clicks the
> eclipse.exe file and the user will not specify any workspace directory
> path, instead everything will be done by eclipse only.

Upen, I think we're having trouble understanding what you mean by "make
Eclipse do everything by itself." Eclipse is an IDE - it's a tool for
humans to edit and work with code. It doesn't do anything at all by itself.

Are you looking for a scripting solution, to drive Eclipse's functionality
from a script? I don't think that exists yet, but I know there are some
people working on it, so you could look into it with Google if that's what
you're interested in. Or are you looking for a way to do automated builds
of an existing workspace? For that, you either want to export Ant scripts
from the projects and run them from the command line, or you may want to run
a "headless" Eclipse (again, you can Google for that term to learn more).
If it's neither of those things, you need to explain better.

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253509 is a reply to message #253481]

Tue, 08 April 2008 13:18

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: upendra249.gmail.com

Achim..thanks for the reply...but what modifications should be made to the
eclipse.ini file??? its not mentioned in the linked you gave me...

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253521 is a reply to message #253505]

Tue, 08 April 2008 16:40

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: upendra249.gmail.com

Harley...I want to execute the eclipse.exe from command prompt. My OS is
windows XP. In the command prompt I can go to the directory where the
eclipse.exe is located and run it.

For Example my eclipse.exe is in eclipse which is in C:\ drive. So to
execute it, I will type this in command prompt:
c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe

Now the eclipse splash screen opens and asks me to enter a work space
directory.Here I dont want to give any path, instead eclipse by default
should take its own path. This is the only thing I had been asking.

So what should I do to make it possible. If understood, Please let me know
what can be done. Let me know if I am clear.

Thanks for the help.

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253533 is a reply to message #253521]

Tue, 08 April 2008 19:48

Eclipse User

Googling "eclipse command line switches" brings Eclipse Runtime Options
at the top of the list

c:\eclipse\eclipse -data c:\myworkspace

Upen wrote:
> Harley...I want to execute the eclipse.exe from command prompt. My OS is
> windows XP. In the command prompt I can go to the directory where the
> eclipse.exe is located and run it.
> For Example my eclipse.exe is in eclipse which is in C:\ drive. So to
> execute it, I will type this in command prompt:
> c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe
>
> Now the eclipse splash screen opens and asks me to enter a work space
> directory.Here I dont want to give any path, instead eclipse by default
> should take its own path. This is the only thing I had been asking.
>
> So what should I do to make it possible. If understood, Please let me
> know what can be done. Let me know if I am clear.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253541 is a reply to message #253509]

Tue, 08 April 2008 21:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Upen" <upendra249@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:95c2af4b672c3bcd8e33389b14459ccb$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Achim..thanks for the reply...but what modifications should be made to the
> eclipse.ini file??? its not mentioned in the linked you gave me...

Use the -data command line switch, but put it in the .ini file (if you don't
want to specify a command line).

It looks like there may have been a bad edit in the wiki at some point; the
topic on specifying a workspace seems to be truncated and runs directly into
the section on specifying a VM, which is missing its topic header.

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253604 is a reply to message #253541]

Wed, 09 April 2008 17:29

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Walter Harley wrote:
> "Upen" <upendra249@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:95c2af4b672c3bcd8e33389b14459ccb$1@www.eclipse.org...
>> Achim..thanks for the reply...but what modifications should be made to the
>> eclipse.ini file??? its not mentioned in the linked you gave me...
>
> Use the -data command line switch, but put it in the .ini file (if you don't
> want to specify a command line).
>
> It looks like there may have been a bad edit in the wiki at some point; the
> topic on specifying a workspace seems to be truncated and runs directly into
> the section on specifying a VM, which is missing its topic header.

Well, did you correct it?
;-)

Eric

Re: Help needed in Silent Installation [message #253608 is a reply to message #253604]

Wed, 09 April 2008 18:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Eric Rizzo" <eclipse-news@rizzoweb.com> wrote in message
news:ftjcec$k1d$3@build.eclipse.org...
> Well, did you correct it?

My bad, it's a help topic, not a wiki. (It's also in the readme.) I've
entered https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=226384 with a proposed
patch.

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