I created this little script to install on a bunch of Cinnamon machines. Now you can Lock Eclipse to the launcher bar by clicking right button on Lock to Laucher Move extracted eclipse folder to /opt/ folder mv eclipse /opt/Ĭreate an eclipse executable in your user path sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipseĬreate a file named eclipse in /usr/bin/ with your preferred editor ( nano, gedit, vi.)Ĭreate a file named sktop in /usr/share/applications/ with your preferred editor ( nano, gedit, vi.)Ĭategories=GNOME Application Development I got Įxtract it by executing a command line tar -xzf You can just download the tar.gz file from .ĭownload Eclipse. Since the Eclipse packages in the Ubuntu repositories are out of date, if we want to install latest releases, we are going to have to do it manually. How to install Eclipse 4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 NB! You must launch Eclipse first, because the directory is created only after the first launch. Launch Eclipse and then give it the required permissions to modify the osgi file: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/eclipse/configuration/ Here is a simple example of installing Open JDK 1.6: sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk Check this question for more information about Java installation. If you've downloaded Eclipse from their official website, follow these steps for the installation.Įxtract the eclipse.XX.YY.tar.gz using tar -zxvf eclipse.XX.YY.tar.gzīecome root and Copy the extracted folder to /opt sudo mv eclipse.XX.YY /optĬreate a desktop file and install it: gedit sktopĪnd copy the following to the sktop file Ĭomment=Integrated Development EnvironmentĪnd make sure that it has executable permission, then execute the following command to automatically install it in the unity: sudo desktop-file-install sktopĬreate a symlink in /usr/local/bin using sudo ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse /usr/local/bin/eclipse44įor eclipse icon to be displayed in dash, eclipse icon can be added as sudo cp /opt/eclipse/icon.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps/eclipse.xpmĭon't forget that you need to have either OpenJDK or Sun Java installed to be able to run eclipse.

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