Thanks for the post. I would like to suggest to clarify certain things. For example selecting the correct JVM. My selection for example showed:

# sudo update-alternatives –config java

There are 2 alternatives which provide `java’.

Selection Alternative
———————————————–
1 /usr/bin/gij-4.2
*+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java

of which I selected the line containing the text ‘jre’ in the path name.

Also, the automatic installation of PHP Eclipse worked only once I changed the URL to a path which contained a file named ’site.xml’. For my installation this meant that the following URL needed to be entered:

http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/update/stable/1.2.x/

However, it seems to me that this URL may change frequently and hence, future attempts to install PHPEclipse should take this fact into account.