Install Ubuntu 8.10
The 32-bit Desktop Edition provided by Canonical is a good choice if you're running Ubuntu natively. Since I'm running it via VMware, I found it convenient to start with the Full Gnome Desktop Image provided by Visoracle.
Install the following packages
- sun-java5-jdk
- sun-java6-jdk
- ant
- maven2
- subversion
Install Eclipse Ganymede JEE SR1
This requires manual installation because the package repositories aren't up to date with this version. On a single-user system, a reasonable way to do this follows.
- Download the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers for Linux from eclipse.org/downloads/packages.
- Unpack it in /usr/local/eclipse
- After unpacking it within /usr/local, chown -R yourlogin.yourgroup eclipse
- Create a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/eclipse to /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse
- Add it to the Applications -> Programming sub-menu via System -> Preferences -> Main Menu
Install Eclipse Plugins
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- viPlugin
- make sure to put viPlugin.license and viplugin_rc.xml in eclipse root dir
- openssh-server
- msttcorefonts
- openoffice.org
- mercurial
- hgsvn
- truecrypt
