How To Install eclipse-mylyn on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-mylyn
on Debian 9.
What is eclipse-mylyn
eclipse-mylyn is:
Mylyn is a Task-Focused Interface for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA.
Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what’s related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.
There are three methods to install eclipse-mylyn
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eclipse-mylyn Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-mylyn
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-mylyn
Install eclipse-mylyn Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-mylyn
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-mylyn
Install eclipse-mylyn Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-mylyn
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-mylyn
How To Uninstall eclipse-mylyn on Debian 9
To uninstall only the eclipse-mylyn
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-mylyn
Uninstall eclipse-mylyn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-mylyn
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-mylyn
Remove eclipse-mylyn Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-mylyn
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-mylyn
Remove eclipse-mylyn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-mylyn
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-mylyn
Dependencies
eclipse-mylyn have the following dependencies:
- eclipse-platform
- eclipse-emf
- libaxis-java
- libcommons-discovery-java
- libcommons-io-java
- libcommons-lang-java
- libguava-java
- libjdom1-java
- libmail-java
- librome-java
- libws-commons-util-java
- libwsdl4j-java
- libxmlrpc3-client-java
- libxmlrpc3-common-java
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-mylyn
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.