Adding PyDev to Eclipse using PyDev zip

Question

I have a lot of problems getting Eclipse to recognize PyDev when using the zip file of the PyDev file. (I need to use the zip file because the Dev machine does not have access to the Internet).

I have Eclipse installed and downloaded PyDev zip. I searched for an honest bit and tried the following based on the suggestions I found: -

• Unzip the zip to ECLIPSE / helios / dropins and restart eclipse.
• Unzip .zip to ECLIPSE / helios / plugins and restart eclipse.

Nothing makes Python a choice in Eclipse, Window, Preferences.

Helios contains an eclipse executable that I use to download eclipse.

I am using eclipse on Redhat linux.

One suggestion was to extract the zip on top of the plugins and folders of the eclipse functions, but I don’t see how this would work, since zip just creates a bunch of files and no folders.

Any help for this work would be great.

Answer 1

Just unzipping the Pydev zip file to C: \ eclipse \ dropins should be enough. So:

1) Unzip the zip file in C:\eclipse\dropins 2) Launch Eclipse 3) Test your installation: Go to Window -> Preferences -> PyDev 

Answer 2

I just did it today, and a much simpler way to do this is to use the built-in installer. Go to Help → Install new software, and then enter pydev in the software filter. Since you already have a zip code, if you extract it from the unpack folder, you will skip the download part and start installing it right away.

I could use zip to install it manually earlier. I will extract its contents to the eclipse folder, overwriting folders with functions and plugins. Today I suggested this to a colleague, and it didn’t work for her. She had to download the latest version of eclipse for this method to work. She downloaded the classic version.

Answer 3

I played with PyDev and Eclipse. Reinstalled Eclipse on the new machine and unpacked the standard version of PyDev (not the original version), and it worked perfectly. The same thing happened on the same machine as the problems, but in a different place (/ home). So it looks like the configuration problem on the machine is not a PyDev / Eclipse problem. Sorry for the run and thanks for the help. Dog.

Answer 4

Whatever the cost, I had the same problem running eclipse 3.6 on RHEL 6. When I started eclipse like me, I did not have any PyDev options; however, when I started eclipse as root, everything appeared. Therefore, permissions can be a fyi problem.