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Eclipse related tricks

Installing Eclipse with p2 Installer

Read instructions on http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Installer.
Get the installer from http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/. The file we need is called equinox.p2.installer-3.x….
To install a specific version of Eclipse, edit the file eclipse/installer.properties.
Find the update site of the release to be installed from http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites.

Insert the correct eclipse.p2.metadata and eclipse.p2.artifacts URL. For an Eclipse 3.6 milestone, one would enter:

eclipse.p2.metadata=http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6milestones
eclipse.p2.artifacts=http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6milestones

Start the installer and install to a custom location.