How to install latest version Eclipse in Ubuntu-16.04

Question

I am getting older version of Eclipse when I install it from terminal, which is fine for C/C++ code, but I want to use java, basically for spring and maven, so I want a newer version.

Solution

Download and install it from http://eclipse.org.

Here is the link to all different versions of eclipse. You just have to extract and run it.

My instruction is:

1. Download it

2. Extract it in /opt

   sudo tar -xf /path/to/file -C /opt
   

3. Create a link to its binary

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