How to Install and Run eclipse on ubuntu

Question

I am trying to install the eclipse modelling tools on ubuntu. I have downloaded the eclipse from the eclipse site and I have extracted the file. I can see the eclipse icon but I cannot run it. I think I need to install it first but, I don't know how. I am new to the unix world.

I think I should first configure and do something like make so that it will be installed; Can someone please help me? I googled a lot, but I didn't find any complete answer for this problem.

Solution 1

I give you the Installation procedure of Eclipse 3.7 on Ubuntu 11.04.

1) Download Eclipse. I got eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

2) Extract it

tar xzf eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

Or just be lazy and Right Click > Extract Here

3) Move to /opt/ folder

 sudo mv eclipse /opt/
 sudo cd /opt/
 sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
 sudo chmod -R +r eclipse

4) Create an eclipse executable in your path

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

copy this into nano

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

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

save the file (^O = Ctrl+o) and exit nano (^X = Ctrl+x)

5) Create a gnome menu item

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

copy this into nano

[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

save and exit nano

6) Launch Eclipse for the first time

/opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean &

Hope it helps.

Solution 2

I've written an installer for Eclipse: https://github.com/bepcyc/eclipse_installer

Just download the eclipse archive (.tar.gz) to the same directory as the script and run:

./eclipse_installer.sh

It should work for any version of Eclipse and Linux.

Comments

[doniyor]

Perfect, Raj! :). Thanks a lot

[Fahim Parkar]

seems some senior had given this to you at start...

[Rahul]

its giving permission denied for last command /opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean & please help

[Harish Raj]

It is about your permission issues. pl try with sudo, Rahul.

[Sathish Kumar k k]

/opt/eclipse/eclipse: 1: /opt/eclipse/eclipse: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

[Sathish Kumar k k]

I get the above error when I run /usr/bin/eclipse -clean & finally

[Viacheslav Rodionov]

@SathishKumarkk Thanks for using the script! Could you please file an issue on github page of the project?

[user3123372]

what can I say , it cant be any simpler than this. Thanks a ton mate u guys are the reason that we are so lazy ,,, just kidding ! Thanks again

[Viacheslav Rodionov]

@user3123372 thanks for using my script, hope it still works. You can also do umake ide eclipse or even umake ide eclipse-jee on a modern Ubuntu version. It even upgrades it ;)

[Akay]

How can we make a shortcut to launch eclipse on desktop?

[Akay]

What does sudo chown -R root:root eclipse sudo chmod -R +r eclipse do?

[Tomark]

It works on Debian 8 too!