On Wednesday 14 May 2003 10:24 am, Jan Schulz wrote: > * David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds a bit complicated, though, as I'm running Woody too. (And I'm too > > chicken to install from source.) > > It isn't complicated :) you maybe need some -dev packages, but this > can be resolved with calling > apt-get build-dep eclipse-sdk > before making the apt-get source call. After that, eclipse will be > build from source (takes about 10 minutes on my 1GHz/512MB box) and > then you have the debs in the 'one level down' dir. > > I do that all them time, when I want some newer programms, like > spamassassin, which are simply out of date in woody. Additonally, it > is only 39 MB instead of nearly 70 from the regular drops (and > unfortunatelly debs as well :( ) > > It may be a bit unfamiliar the first time, but this is really > usefull... > > Jan
Fair enough. I'll definitely give it a shot one day then when I have some more time. Thanks for the suggestion! DR
