[angelrabbit99]

Hello,

I have to install Eclipse 3.0.1 + MyEclipse 3.8.3 on around 20 development PCs. I would like to know ho can I create some silent install procedure that I can run on each PC without having to go thrugh the wizards? Do you hav any examples concerning this king of install? All the PCs run Windows2k.

Thank you,
Alex.

[Riyad Kalla]

Alex,
The fastest thing I can think of off the top of my head is:

1) use the manual install, unzip it to a dir on all the machines (e.g. C:\MyEclipse-3.8.3)
2) Add .link files to the <eclipse>\links folder on all the machines that contain “path=C:\\MyEclipse-3.8.3”

That should do it…

[angelrabbit99]

Riyad,

Could you be more explicit please?
I have to install MyEclipse on one machine using the installer and then zip the installation dir and unzip it on the rest of the machines? And what about the licenses? Can I pack Eclipe + MyEclipse in one installation archive in some way?

Thank you,
Alex.

[Scott Anderson]

Alex,

You can install on one machine, under a common root, something like this:
c:\dev\MyEclipse
\eclipse-3.0.1\ unzip Eclipse 3.0.1 into here
\myeclipse-3.8.3\ install MyEclipse into here, using the manual installer or the double-click one
\workspace your workspace directory (empty at first)

Run the instance and specify a workspace location of: c:\dev\MyEclipse\workspace. Once running, switch to the MyEclipse Perspective and enter the license key for your group (assuming a single group key). Shutdown Eclipse.

Now you can zip c:\dev\MyEclipse and simply unzip to all the machines.

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