Adding PyDev to Eclipse using the PyDev zip - python

I'm having a lot of trouble getting Eclipse to recognise PyDev when using the PyDev zip file. (I need to use the zip file as the Dev machine does not have internet access).
I have Eclipse installed and have downloaded the PyDev zip. I've Googled a fair bit and tried the following based on suggestions I found:-
Unzipped the .zip into ECLIPSE/helios/dropins and restarted eclipse.
Unzipped the .zip into ECLIPSE/helios/plugins and restarted eclipse.
Neither makes Python appear as a selection in the Eclipse, Window, Preferences.
Helios contains the executable eclipse file I use to load eclipse.
I'm using eclipse in Redhat linux.
One suggestion was to extract the zip over the eclipse plugins and features folders, but I don't see how that would work as the zip just produces a heap of files and no folders.
Any help to get this working would be great.

Just unzipping the Pydev zip file under C:\eclipse\dropins should be enough. So:
1) Unzip the zip file in C:\eclipse\dropins
2) Launch Eclipse
3) Test your installation: Go to Window -> Preferences -> PyDev

I just did this today and a far easier way to do it is to use the built-in installer. Go to Help -> Install New Software and then type pydev in the software filter. Since you already have the zip, if you extract it in the dropins folder, you'll skip the download portion and go straight to installing it.
I have been able to use the zip to install it manually before. I would extract its contents in the eclipse folder overwriting the features and plugins folder. I suggested this to a coworker earlier today and it didn't work for her. She had to download the newest version of eclipse for this method to work. She downloaded the classic version.

I've been playing with PyDev and Eclipse. Reinstalled Eclipse on a fresh machine and unzipped the standard PyDev over it (not the source version) and it worked fine. Did the same thing on the same machine having the problems but in a different location (/home) also worked fine. So it looks like a configuration problem on the machine not a PyDev/Eclipse issue. Sorry for the run around and thanks for the help. Dog.

For whatever it's worth, I was having the same problem running eclipse 3.6 on RHEL 6. When I ran eclipse as myself, I didn't get any PyDev options; however, when I ran eclipse as root, everything showed up. So permissions could be an issue fyi.

Open the eclipse and navigate in the below format of the menu bar of the eclispe
Window > Perspective > Open Perspective and select Pydev. As a result when next time you open eclipse you will be using it with python.Please follow the below screen shot in the link I am Using python 3.7 with eclipse photon ide.
Eclispe with Python

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The available locations for the zip files are:
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Before Eclipse 3.4
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I had the same issue with interpreters not seen for pydev/python.
I followed the link1 below, I had to use the PyDev 3.2.0.zip file and install it with 7zip in the dropin folder, for my system it is:
"eclipse-SDK-3.5.2-win32-x86_64__classicversion\eclipse\dropins" folder. (if you just right click to unzip (not using 7zip) in the dropins folder, you get the 0x80010135 Path too long error).
Then I had to reboot my windows 7 64bit pc to see the pydev/python interpreters.
Then follow link2 and watch derek banas python online videos where he goes over the installs and tutorials.
link1: http://pydev.org/manual_101_install.html
then at the bottom of the page select
http://pydev.org/manual_101_interpreter.html
Note: I also had to use the unzip trick for other eclipse updates ...

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this is a hidden way to install plugin.

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