How to tell apt-get to install eclipse in other than the default version

Question

eclipse is installed with apt-get in version 3.5:

sudo apt-get install eclipse-platform

however I would like to install 3.6.
how to specify that?

Answer 1

Eclipse 3.5 is the latest version in repositories.apt-get installs the latest version automatically, so there is nothing to do with apt-get.

Instead you can download eclipse 3.6 (Helios) from eclipse.org and use it.

Answer 2

You can tell apt to install a specific version as follows:

apt-get install package=version

example:

apt-get install eclipse-platform=3.5.2-6ubuntu1.1

But AFAIK the version 3.6 is not available in the repo. It is better to install manually . Check a similar thread here How to install Eclipse.