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Re: [photran] how to install photran-4.0-beta1.zip
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Bob -
After reading through your documentation, I realized (and this is the
silly part) that I was just missing the correct directory structure for
extensions. I had never seen, nor heard of, a .eclipseextension file. It
seems to be required in the eclipse/ folder, but it installed if I just
did a "touch .eclipseextension" !. For other neophytes like me these are
the steps it took on linux:
1. cd {$LocalExtensionsFolder} where you want to keep track of manual
things, like archived sites and extensions (like Photran).
2. mkdir -p phototran-4.0-beta1/eclipse
3. cd phototran-4.0-beta1/eclipse
4. create text file .eclipseextension (can be nil, but the following
is for bookkeeping) like:
name=Photran
id=org.eclipse.photran_feature
version=4.0.0
5. unzip the downloaded phototran-4.0-beta1.zip, so that
phototran-4.0-beta1/eclipse also contains features/ and plugins/
directories
6. In the eclipse SDK, select Help/Software Updates/Manager
Configuration and click on "Add an Extension Location"
7. Point to {$LocalExtensionsFolder}/phototran-4.0-beta1, click on
the +Add button and click OK
8. eclipse will then prompt you to restart
9. You should now have a new Perspective, Fortran
10. You should see this extension if you go to: Help/Software
Updates/Manage Configuration and navigate to the Photran extension
in the left-hand pane. If you higlight it and select "Show
Properties" it should contain information as contained in the
.eclipseextension file in step 4 (but you can put anything, or
NOTHING, in there and it will still know what it is).
Thanks again
Karl
Bob Hoffman wrote:
Karl, it's not a silly question (as you'll see from the attachments)...
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