Thanks to the numerous people who gave feedback on the last upload I was able to do much fixes to the Eclipse Debian packages. They got improved very much. The most shiny feature is the powerpc support support with pre-compiled jars for GCJ 4.0.
The packages can be fetched via apt-get with the following lines in your sources.list:
For i386 packages:
deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./
For powepc packages:
deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable-powerpc/ ./
For source packgages:
deb-src http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./
Please test this version of the Debian packages and give feedback to me.
BTW: If you have problems starting up Eclipse please try to remove/rename the
.eclipse
directory in your home directory.