How to install eclipse in Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)

April 7, 2012 - How to, install - Tagged: , - 1 comment

Eclipse is an integrated development ennvironment primarily for Java but with the extra plugins it can also be used to develop applications in C, C++, PHP, Scala, etc.

Here we are explaining How to install eclipse on linux. Distros covered are Fedora, CentOS and RHEL.

Download Eclipse

Go to www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and select suitable version according to your needs.

Switch to root

ayush@linuxstall:$ su -

Extracting

We are extracting the Eclipse package into /opt directory.

ayush@linuxstall:$ tar -xvzf eclipse-SDK-3.7.2-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt

Adding read permissions

ayush@linuxstall:$ chmod -R +r /opt/eclipse

Creating executable

ayush@linuxstall:$ touch /usr/bin/eclipse
ayush@linuxstall:$ chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
ayush@linuxstall:$ gedit /usr/bin/eclipse

Paste following code in the file.

 #!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse" 
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

You are done!