Thank you Con Verse for that.
I had a bunch of dependencies to solve, mostly it seems that it needed the 32 bit librarries, and I have now got it to install, but while doing so I got this message:
dpkg: jlink: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
jlink depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.5); however:
Package libncurses5 is not installed.
jlink depends on libc6 (>= 2.7); however:
Package libc6 is not installed.
Yast is telling me that libncurses5 is already at 6.0, and I assume I can solve the missing libc6 by doing simlinmk to glibc. I have got the ide to run and import a project from kds, but can anybody suggest how to get around these two problems?