Currently, I have access to the packages 'eclipse'/'eclipse-platform' on Ubuntu. Having either installed then allows additional packages/plug- ins to be installed for the various computer languages (e.g. JDT, CDT, pydev).
With a view to moving to Debian, I looked through the debian-java mailing list archive and noticed the package 'eclipse-platform-runtime' mentioned in a post from mid-January 2023. However, it is not a package for installing a directly runnable Eclipse platform. Looking at "https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse";, there is no mention of installing Debian packages to install Eclipse. In fact, in the history of edits to the wiki page, I found the following dated 2019-10-04: "eclipse can not be installed as package in the current stable, not even as backport, download from originating page is only option left..." To me, not being able to install Eclipse using Debian packages does not square with the fact that 'eclipse-platform-runtime' exists. Therefore, what is the how-to with regards to installing Eclipse using only Debian packages? In other words, how to make it so that the Eclipse wiki page has valid instructions for installing Eclipse using only Debian packages. Thanks, Gervase.
