I am trying to install the eclipse modelling tools on ubuntu. I have downloaded the eclipse from the eclipse site and I have extracted the file. I can see the eclipse icon but I cannot run it. I think I need to install it first but, I don't know how. I am new to the unix world.
I think I should first configure and do something like make
so that it will be installed; Can someone please help me? I googled a lot, but I didn't find any complete answer for this problem.
Double-click the Eclipse installer to run it. It's the file that begins with eclipse-inst . If you're using Linux, you'll need to unzip the downloaded file so you can access the installer. Just type tar -xvf eclipse-inst-jre-linux64.
To run Eclipse from anywhere in the Terminal, add the eclipse install directory to PATH environment variable. Append eclipse directory to the PATH. Save the file. Now we can launch Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu Linux from anywhere in the Terminal windows.
To run Eclipse, open the " /usr/local/eclipse " folder and click on the "Eclipse" icon; or start a "Terminal", enter "eclipse".
I give you the Installation procedure of Eclipse 3.7 on Ubuntu 11.04.
1) Download Eclipse. I got eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
2) Extract 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 into 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 into 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 it helps.
I've written 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.
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