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

After installing the ppa version of 3.6 supplied by the Eclipse Team I was unable to run eclipse, got splash screen then it closed. I then downloaded the latest version of eclipse 3.6. I then extracted eclipse into the ppa installed directory. Make sure you over-write all packages. Once this was down I tried eclipse again and it was successful.