Installing Eclipse Helios on Ubuntu 10.10

Eclipse Install on Ubuntu

 To install eclipse on ubuntu you need to download it first from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Extract the downloaded file by right click on it and extract here or running the following:

tar xzf dir/eclipse-SDK-3.3.1.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz

Where eclipse-SDK-3.3.1.1-linux-gtk is your eclipse-SDK name with version and dir is the directory of eclipse-sdk.

Now move it to the root directory. Apply the following command to do this.

sudo mv dir/eclipse ~

 Now You are ready to configure your eclipse. To do this follow the following step by step...

sudo mv eclipse /opt/

Take care of the permissions:

sudo chmod -R +r /opt/eclipse
sudo chmod +x /opt/eclipse/eclipse

Create an executable in your path:

sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo gedit /usr/bin/eclipse

Copy the following content and save the file:

#!/bin/sh
#export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*


Let’s also make eclipse executable everywhere by creating a symlink:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/eclipse /bin/eclipse


Create the menu icon:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Type in this content and save:
......................................................
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true
..................................................

Run for the first time:

eclipse -clean

You can now start Eclipse by simply typing eclipse in the terminal or from the GNOME menu Applications -> Programming -> Eclipse