Can't find the Eclipse that was installed by Eclipse installer

Question

I downloaded an installer from here and run eclipse-inst. It showed a dialog to select an IDE to install, I selected Java and installed it in /root/java, then it showed me a button to launch it... I launched it and it opened the IDE, but when I closed the IDE, I couldn't find it anywhere in my computer using search. I also hadn't access to /root/

How can I uninstall it?

How could I install such programs correctly? Did I make a mistake?

Solution

If you use installer to install the Eclipse, give it an appropriate directory like /opt. After installation you have access to this directory and you can run Eclipse located in the installed directory.

In fact, you could directly download and extract your desired IDE without using the installer.

If you want to give the program a shortcut in launcher follow the instructions in this answer.

Comments

[Ahmad]

@Fabby this question need an answer for correct usage of eclipse installer. however they are similar in the end

[Fabby]

@Ahmad: then go and edit the original! You get rep for that too! ;-)