How to upgrade Eclipse from 3.5 (Galileo) to 3.6 (Helios) the proper way?

Question

I notice this question has been asked a few times but I don\'t really like the solution with two Eclipses in parallel. I just want my Galileo upgraded to Helios with preservatio

Answer 1

Hopefully this will save somebody some trouble... I installed Helios from the zip but found that Eclipse couldn't install new plugins because of screwy dependancies. I found that I had to remove the old Eclipse folders from ~/.eclipse. Hope this helps somebody! (My system: Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit)