These instructions assume that you have already installed some flavor of Eclipse 3.7 or 3.8. If you have not, Eclipse can be downloaded from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/

Once you have Eclipse up and running, do the following 1. install Xtext 2.3.0 from the update site http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/updates/composite/releases/ 1. install protobuf-dt from the update site http://protobuf-dt.googlecode.com/git/update-site