Note | The next task assumes a Windows machine with WinZip installed. If you are not running Windows, or if you use another ZIP file extraction program, use the utility of your choice to extract all the files in the ZIP file into the folder C:\Program Files\eclipse (be sure to use subfolders ), and then skip to Step 2.2. If you don't want to use the folder name C:\Program Files\eclipse, feel free to use your own and modify the instructions that follow accordingly . |
q 2.1(a) Using the Windows Start button, start WinZip.
q 2.1(b) Click the Open button.
Now, you need to select the file. I will walk you through the steps to open the ZIP file included on the CD-ROM. If, however, you've downloaded a different version of Eclipse using Sidestep 3, you'll need to navigate to that file instead.
q 2.1(c) Select your CD-ROM drive.
q 2.1(d) Open the Software folder.
q 2.1(e) Open the Eclipse folder.
q 2.1(f) Open the Eclipse SDK ZIP file.
You will see the ZIP file contents as shown in Figure 2.7.
q 2.1(g) Click the Extract button.
Clicking the Extract button will bring up a dialog box that allows you to select a directory to install the ZIP contents into. This dialog will look like the one in Figure 2.9.
You now need to decide where to install this software. I prefer to use "C:\Program Files", because the IDE is after all a program. Everything in the ZIP file is actually in a folder called "eclipse" or one of its subfolders, so after you've finished, you'll see a folder named "eclipse" under "C:\Program Files". Also be sure that the checkbox marked "Use folder names " is checked; otherwise the extract process will not build the required directory structure.
Note | You will need to know the name of this folder for later Steps, particularly Step 4, so I'm going to have you save it. |
q 2.1(h) Save the directory name as $ECLIPSEINST: ___________.
q 2.1(i) Enter the value of $ECLIPSEINST as the directory and click Extract.
A status dialog like the one in Figure 2.10 will come up to show you the progress of the extraction.
Once this finishes, you have successfully installed Eclipse. Time to run it. First, close WinZip, either by selecting the File menu and then selecting the Exit option or by clicking on the X in the upper right corner of the WinZip window.
q 2.1(j) Close WinZip.