The SpringSource Tools Suite is a development environment based on Eclipse that comes configured with all the plugins needed to work with the dm Server and OSGi. Although the steps are similar, the details of installing STS depend on the operating system.
Go to the STS download site (http://www.springsource.com/products/sts) and download the variant appropriate to the operating system STS is to be run on. At the time of writing version 2.0.2 is the latest stable release.
Unzip the download of STS to the root directory of a drive (this will avoid possible problems with long pathnames).
cd C:\
"%JAVA_HOME%"\bin\jar xf \path\to\springsource-tool-suite-2.0.2-e3.4-win32.zip
To verify the installation, run the eclipse.exe executable in the unzipped directory
and check that STS displays a welcome panel.
Unpack the download of STS to a suitable location on the file system, such
as /opt or, if root access is not available, the home directory.
(If the download was automatically unpacked by the operating
system, simply move the unpacked directory to the chosen location.)
To verify the installation, run the STS executable (Eclipse.app on Mac OS X)
in the unpacked directory and check that STS displays a welcome panel.