This is a guide to setting up a uDig development environment for the Debian linux testing (etch) distribution.

• Installing Subversion
• Installing Java
• Installing Eclipse

Where possible tools have been installed from scratch as I'm hoping that one day this can form the basis of a Debian GIS HOW-TO for uDig development.

Installing Subversion

1. Install Subversion:
   apt-get install subversion
2. [Configure] Subversion.
3. Create a directory and checkout trunk:

   /usr/src/sis$ mkdir udig
   /usr/src/sis$ cd udig
   /usr/src/sis/udig$ svn co http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk
   

Installing Java

1. Debian provides the java-package utility to create a Debian installation package from supported Java(TM) 2 RE or SDK self-extracting archives (see the make-jpkg man page for details):

   /pkgs/java$ apt-get install java-package
   

2. Download the appropriate [Java] self -extracting archive (.bin, not the .rpm)
3. Create the Debian package

   /pkgs/java$ fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin
   

4. Install the package

   /pkgs/java# dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update06_i386.deb
   

Unfortunately no method exists yet for packaging Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) or Java Image IO (ImageIO) so we have to install these [manually]

Installing Eclipse

1. Download [Eclipse] and unzip into a directory, in my case /opt

1. Create a shell script to launch eclipse:

   /opt/eclipse# echo '#!/bin/sh' >/usr/local/bin/eclipse
   /opt/eclipse# echo '/opt/eclipse/eclipse -startup /opt/eclipse/startup.jar' >>/usr/local/bin/eclipse
   /opt/eclipse# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/eclipse
   

2. Configure the Eclipse Update Manager:
   • Choose Help > Software Updates > Find and Install...
   • Select Search for new features to install
   • Click on Import sites
   • Import the attached bookmarks [DEV:file|^EclipseUpdateSitesBookmarks.xml]
3. Install the following minimal set of extras (of course you can just select whole packages - however you might run into problems with dependencies):
   • EMF/SDO/XSD Secondary Update Site
     • EMF SDK
   • GEF Update Site
     • Graphical Editing Framework
   • Subclipse Update Site
     • Subclipse
   • TPTP Update Site
     • TPTP Features
       • TPTP ProbeKit
       • TPTP Test Tools
       • TPTP Core
       • TPTP Charting Service
       • TPTP Platform Trace
       • TPTP Test
4. Configure Eclipse