Kubuntu, Eclipse and Flex Builder

Getting Eclipse and Flex Builder to work together on my Kubuntu laptop was a lot easier than at work - because it's all 32-bit, mainly.

  1. Install Eclipse from the Ubuntu repositories (unlike RedHat, this doesn't appear to be particularly mangeled). Currently this gets you v3.2, which is fine.
    The packages I used were eclipse, eclipse-jdt, eclipse-pde, eclipse-platform, eclipse-rcp and eclipse-source - plus whatever dependancies I was offered.
  2. Change the Eclipse install to be owned by your user:
    chgrp -R <user> /usr/lib/eclipse
    chmod -R g+w /usr/lib/eclipse
  3. Run the Flex Builder installer, and tell it your Eclipse install is in /usr/lib/eclipse - leave the other options at the defaults.

You might want to read How to make your Eclipse plugin list survive an Eclipse upgrade too.

Thank you!

Flex builder was installing fine for me in ubuntu, but was not showing flex project or perspective in eclipse... this fixed it!

Thanks!

You may want to check out Sprouts

Hey,

Just caught this post and thought I'd spread the word a little. I've been working on an open source project that should help folks on Linux get up and running with ActionScript 2, 3, and MXML projects.

Check it out and let me know what you think:
http://code.google.com/p/projectsprouts/

Here's a video demo of an older version:
http://www.asserttrue.com/articles/2007/04/04/introducing-asproject

Well, looks nice enough, but

Well, looks nice enough, but Builder's new project wizard creates a project layout that is a lot more familiar.

Tom

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