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From the bottom half of bug 130150 comment 15 If you look at the current downloads page, you wouldn't guess that Eclipse is also supported on Linux x86_64, Linux and AIX on IBM POWER and Solaris. Although the user base of those platforms is relatively small compared to the Big Three (win32, linux x86 and Mac OS X), it still creates confusion and frustration for those users who were accustomed to finding downloads for their platform, not to mention the questions that our community must repeatedly answer on the newsgroups and IRC. For those users whose platform is not supported by EPP, an easy fix would be to redirect them to the Platform download page at http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3.1-200709211145/ upon detection of their platform.
This is closely related to bug 205205.
+1, I'd say we have one or two persons on average come on IRC and say Eclipse won't run on Linux only to find out that they had the 32-bit build instead of the 64-bit one.
(In reply to comment #2) > +1, I'd say we have one or two persons on average come on IRC and say Eclipse > won't run on Linux only to find out that they had the 32-bit build instead of > the 64-bit one. I think that is a (different and) fairly universal 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue that we cannot (and shouldn't attempt to) solve with the website. The scope of the current issue is that Eclipse is available for more than just Windows, Linux and Mac, and that was not evident from the current downloads page. I have since added a message if the OS is not one of the Big Three: We were unable to find Eclipse packages for your platform (linux-x64). Below are the packages for Windows. Downloads for your platform may be available here. -> which links to the Eclipse project downloads at http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ I think the above message is sufficient to close this. Feel free to reopen if you think otherwise.
*** Bug 210218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In the current download page, if I want to get the 64-bit Linux download for 'Eclipse IDE for Java Developers' but I am on a 32-bit system (say I want to put it on a USB stick to transfer to another computer), how do I get it? I hope we are not expecting users to know about the EPP page by themselves, are we? http://www.eclipse.org/epp/download.php
Any updates to my inquiry in comment 5?
(In reply to comment #6) > Any updates to my inquiry in comment 5? That appears to be bug 218081. Am I right?
(In reply to comment #7) > That appears to be bug 218081. Am I right? Thanks for the pointer, Denis, that is what I want, yes.
