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
