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I already had Eclipse installed, so I decided to install all the dependencies and then install PDT. Ben Ramsey has put together a nice list of urls. After getting all the deps installed through Eclipse, I installed PDT and started a new project. I quickly ran into some problems – the PHP Explorer was not working and sometimes the auto complete would fail to work.

I’m not sure what was causing the problems (I have Sun’s Java installed, as I know other versions of the Java VM can cause problems), but I un-installed Eclipse through apt-get and downloaded the PDT all-in-one package. I unzipped the file, fired up Eclipse, and it worked fine.

Next on my list was Subclipse. Installing it was a breeze. It took a little while to figure out how to use it, but I was able to connect to the repository on my dev server and checkout a project in a short amount of time. After making a token change, I attempted to commit the changed file back to the repo, That’s where the fun started. I kept getting various error messages about “Option Expected” in the svnserve.conf. I changed the svnserve.conf numerous times to no avail. After almost an hour, I finally figured out the problem. I was uncommenting the lines in svnserve.conf and NOT removing the extra whitespace before the declaration. I finally removed the whitespace and viola, it worked…

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