Installing Pydev and Eclipse — Instructions for CSSE 120 students

Freshman and sophomores — your laptops probably already have some of the installation done, as noted below.

1. See if you need to install Eclipse by seeing if you have a file

   C:\Program Files\eclipse\readme\readme_eclipse.html
   

   that says near the beginning Release 3.4.2 (or a later release).

   If you have such a file (freshman and sophomores probably DO have such a file), skip to the next step. Otherwise install Eclipse as follows:

   1. If you have an older version of Eclipse, uninstall your existing version by deleting your C:\Program Files\eclipse folder.
   2. Regardless of whether or not you had an existing, prior version of Eclipse, click to open this local zip archive of the Eclipse program.
   3. Drag the eclipse folder from inside the zip archive (however your zip extractor does this) to C:\Program Files.
   4. Make a shortcut to "C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe", putting the shortcut wherever you find convenient (e.g. your Start Menu, desktop, and/or Quick Launch menu).

2. Install and configure PyDev for Eclipse by following these instructions.
3. See if you need to install Subclipse 1.6.x by:
   1. Open Eclipse.
   2. Select the Help → Software Updates menu item.
   3. Select the Installed Software tab.
   4. If you have an entry that says Subclipse 1.6.x (where x can be any number), you have Subclipse installed and can skip the following.

      But if you do not have Subclipse or have an older version of Subclipse installed (e.g. if you have version 1.4.x instead of 1.6.x), proceed as follows:

      1. Select the Available Software tab.
      2. Select the Add Site ... button.
      3. In the dialog box that opens, type

              http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x
         

         and select OK to exit the dialog box.
      4. Back in the Available Software tab, select the checkbox labelled

              http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x
         

         and then press the Install button.
      5. Accept the license terms and proceed through the installation. You'll see Installing in the lower-right corner of Eclipse. After about 1 minute, Eclipse will ask if you want to restart it. Choose Yes.

      That's it! We'll test your installation by using Subclipse in class.