I recently got an excellent deal on a Chromebook (Hisense C11), and have used crouton to install Trusty Tahr (14.04):
(trusty)craig@localhost:~$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.14.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 20 20:48:35 PDT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
(trusty)craig@localhost:~$ java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
I installed JDK 1.8 (ARM) from Oracle, which is working great.
I then used the package manager to install the generic eclipse
package, as Eclipse doesn't seem to provide ARM builds of their standard IDE packages.
However, to my dismay, the trusty
repository only contains Eclipse 3.8, which doesn't have support for JDK 8.
How can I install Eclipse 4.5 (or any version with Java 8 support, really) in Ubuntu on ARM? I'm fine compiling if necessary, but it seems since 99% of this should be .jar
-based, I figure I'm just looking for a newer version of the executable?
Edit: I would also be satisfied with the ability to get my current Eclipse 3.8 installation working with Java 8, but that seems harder.
trusty
repository, I'm just trying to figure out how. Did ARM previously have first-class support, which has since been dropped? Or was it a one-off build in the first place? How does Eclipse get built for Windows? Surely there's a build script somewhere, it can't be some solo guy hiding in the shadows. :-)