Installing eclipse in ubuntu/linux

Download eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Make an opt directory in user’s home directory

$ mkdir ~/opt

Go to the directory where you have downloaded eclipse

$ tar -xvf eclipse-SDK-3.4.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz && mv eclipse ~/opt

Make a bin folder in user’s home directory

$ mkdir ~/bin

Next create an executable for Eclipe at ~/bin/eclipse

$ vi ~/bin/eclipse

Add the following lines in this file

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="$HOME/opt/eclipse"
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

Finally make script executable

$ chmod +x ~/bin/eclipse

You can now execute that file to start up Eclipse.

February 9, 2009 | Filed Under J2ee, Java, Linux

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