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Friday, September 7, 2007

Install Eclipse in Linux by just 10 Easy Steps ....!



1. Download Eclipse (tar.gz package from its official site)

2. Extract it and rename it by (eclipse)

3. Start your terminal

4. Logo on to super user

         sudo -i

5. Go to the directory where eclipse is extracted using

         cd

6. Move "eclipse" directory to OPT directory

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

7. Create an eclipse executable in your path

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

8. It will open nano screen copy below lines in it(Save it using ^o="ctrl+o" then exit nano ^x="ctrl+x")

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

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*


9. Create Gnome menu Item

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

10. Again copy below lines in nano screen then save and exit it

        [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

 11. Start you eclipse for first time

       /opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean &

Now you are ready to use eclipse further on when you need to start eclipse use your terminal to start it by super user writing only "eclipse" in it