Chuck Robey wrote: [snip] > Mark, I could be responsible for this (the fact that it seems that neither > of the things I really wanted to know are covered) because sometimes I am > not clear in what I'm asking, so let me try again. > > I need to get an up-to-date version of eclipse working on my gentoo box. > First question is, is there a Galileo (3.5+) version of eclipse available > as a portage > package? I can't find it, so I'd really appreciate a pointer. The only > thing I can see is a fairly old eclipse version (I think a year or more > out of date). > > Second question, at the eclipse website, I see a binary version of the > latest > Linux-eclipse (the version I'm after). If I *can't* get a portage package > version of Galileo-eclipse, then if I install the binary package > (non-portage) from the eclipse website, can I get (and how can I get) > portage to consider this package as supplying any dependency which would > be otherwise supplied by the latest (ganymede, 3.4+) portage version of > the eclipse tool . > > Unless I'm completely misreading your stuff, your examples tell me how to > install the (too old) portage version, which is in all cases just too old > for me, so my 2 questions boil down to (1) must I?, and (2) How do I?
The binary is self-contained, simply install it in /opt and you're done. As long as you have X running, it's enough and you don't need to tell portage anything about it. - Jörg
