SlickEdit® Core runs on Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® operating systems with the following requirements:
Windows:
Microsoft Windows 7, Vista®, XP, or 2000
170 MB available hard disk space
Linux:
Linux 32-bit or compatible, x86 kernel 2.6 or later, and LSB compliant
240 MB available hard disk space
GTK 2
In addition, each installation of SlickEdit Core on any platform requires:
A minimum of 256 MB of memory
Eclipse 3.4 - 3.7
CDT, JDT, and PDT are required for building, running, and debugging C/C++, Java, and PHP, respectively.
Java 5 or later (32-bit or 64-bit on Windows, 32-bit on Linux) from Sun or IBM. SlickEdit Core will not run using gcj.
SlickEdit Core is provided as an annual subscription that includes support. Installation is performed by using the Eclipse Install Wizard, either with the SlickEdit Core Update Site or with a downloaded ZIP archive.
The instructions below are for installing version 3.7 of the SlickEdit Core plug-in for Eclipse version 3.7, Indigo. Use of this version of SlickEdit Core with any other version of Eclipse is unsupported. If you are using an earlier version of Eclipse, contact product support for information on obtaining the corresponding version of SlickEdit Core.
To install SlickEdit® Core from the SlickEdit Core Update Site:
In Eclipse, select Help → Install New Software, check Group items by category, and click the Add... button.
Enter the SlickEdit Core Update Site URL: http://www.slickedit.com/update/secore/indigo in the Location field and click OK.
Expand the Code Editing category and mark the check box for SlickEdit Core for Eclipse, as shown below.
SlickEdit Core for Eclipse is comprised of 4 features, only one of which is required. The other 3 features provide integration with other Eclipse plug-ins used for working with C/C++ (CDT), Java (JDT), and PHP (PDT). This prevents users from being forced to install unnecessary plug-ins into their Eclipse environment.
If you want Eclipse to automatically download all optional features for SlickEdit Core, along with any required plug-ins, mark the Contact all update sites during install to find required software check box. Without this check box marked, the only optional features that Eclipse will install are those which have dependencies satisfied by your current IDE. In other words, if you do not have CDT installed, the SlickEdit Core CDT Integration feature will not be downloaded. If you do have CDT installed, the Install Wizard will download the optional feature.
Click Next and continue through the wizard to complete the install process. You will be prompted to restart Eclipse after the installation is finished.
SlickEdit also provides a ZIP file for installing SlickEdit Core, which downloaded at http://www.slickedit.com/trial/slickedit-core. There is link at the bottom of the page for downloading the ZIP file. The page provides instructions for downloading the Trial version, but it is the same installation file as the full version. The license file used determines whether it is a trial or not.
Installing using the ZIP file is almost the exact same process as installing using the Update Site, except that instead of specifying the Update Site URL on the Add Site dialog, you click the Archive... button and browse to the ZIP file. The Install Wizard will walk you through the install, as detailed above.
SlickEdit Core uses a license file to authenticate your license. A Full License file is not bound to a particular machine and may be used on as many machines as allowed by the End User License Agreement. A Trial License file is bound to a single machine.
In most cases, the location of the license file is managed by SlickEdit Core and depends on your platform. However, if you are setting up a portable installation of Eclipse with SlickEdit Core, to run on a USB drive for example, you should manually copy the license file to the win subdirectory of your SlickEdit Core installation on Windows or the bin subdirectory on Linux.
When SlickEdit Core is run, it checks for a license. If one can't be found, the SlickEdit License Manager wizard is run. You can also manually run the SlickEdit License Manager by selecting Help → SlickEdit License Manager. The SlickEdit License Manager provides the following options:
Request a Trial License - To try out SlickEdit Core, click the option to obtain a Trial License. This will take you to a Web page where you can request a license file. The license file will be sent to you in an e-mail.
Purchase a license - To buy a Full License, visit the SlickEdit Web site at www.slickedit.com or select this option, which will take you directly to the product page for SlickEdit Core.
Request a license for a purchased product - If you have already purchased a license for SlickEdit Core, you can download a license file to this computer from the SlickEdit Web site.
Install a license file - Copies a downloaded license file to the location SlickEdit Core uses to store the file.
Renew your subscription - Select this option to renew your SlickEdit Core subscription.
To uninstall SlickEdit® Core:
In Eclipse, select Help → Install New Software..., and click the already installed link at the bottom of the dialog.
On the Installed Software tab select SlickEdit Core for Eclipse from the list, and click the Uninstall... button at the bottom of the dialog.
Click Finish on the Uninstall dialog to complete the uninstall.
Uninstallation from the Eclipse Install Wizard will not remove the SlickEdit plug-ins from disk. If you wish to completely remove SlickEdit Core for Eclipse from your computer, after uninstalling from Eclipse you must remove all com.slickedit.* directories from [EclipseInstallDir]/plugins.