Installing Subclipse 1.6 Walkthrough

Summary

Subclipse is a subversion plugin for Eclipse. You'll need this in order to retrieve and share code and resources from other people using the Subversion source control system.

Notes

The subclipse project has a good walkthrough available on their site here:

http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html

It is recommended that you use their instructions over the steps below. These instructions are provided as an alternative if, for whatever reason, you can't use theirs.

These instructions were written for installation of Subclipse 1.6 in Eclipse 3.4.2 on a Mac OS X system. Using any other platform or version will likely cause some variation in appearance and the steps required.

Prerequisites

1. Eclipse 3.4.2
2. Java 5 or higher. On Mac OS X systems, your default JVM must be 1.5 in order to install plugins with Eclipse 3.4.2.

Installation

1. If you've followed the steps for installing and testing Eclipse, you should have launched Eclipse at this point and may be sitting at the Welcome panel:
2. If you see that panel, just click the X next to Welcome to close that window. If you don't see a Welcome panel, you've probably already closed it. Don't worry; just keep going.
3. You should now be looking at the Eclipse GUI:
   
4. In the Help menu, choose “Software Updates”
5. You should now see the “Software Updates and Add-ons” screen:
6. Click on the “Available Software” tab:
7. Click on the “Add Site” button.
8. An “Add Site” dialog will appear:
9. In the dialog, add the subclipse location, http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x, and click OK.
10. Two update groups will be added to the interface, one for svnkit and one for subclipse:
11. Select all of the svnkit and subclipse features:
    
12. Click the Install button on the top right.
13. A progress dialog will appear:
    
14. A review panel will be displayed:
15. Click the “Next” button. A Review Licenses panel will be displayed:
    
16. Select “I accept the terms of the license agreements”, then click “Finish”
    
17. The actual installation now commences:
    
18. Eclipse now prompts you to restart:
    
19. Choose “Yes”
20. Congratulations! You've now installed subclipse.