Install eclipse and how to run it on ubuntu

Question

I am trying to install eclipse modeling tools on ubuntu. I downloaded eclipse from the eclipse website and I extracted the file. I see the eclipse icon, but I can not start it. I think I need to install it first, but I don’t know how to do it. I am new to the unix world.

I think I need to first configure and do something like make so that it is installed; Can someone please help me? I googled a lot, but I did not find a complete answer to this problem.

Answer 1

I give you the installation procedure for Eclipse 3.7 on Ubuntu 11.04.

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

2) Remove 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 to 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 to 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 this helps.

Answer 2

I wrote 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.