How to install Eclipse 4.2 on Ubuntu 12.10 -- amd64
I made it following these steps in a post on "askubuntu"~ Fairly clear~
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Because Eclipse packages in Ubuntu are out of date. If we want to install last releases we are going to do it manually. You can just download the tar.gz file from eclipse.org.
1) Download Eclipse. I got eclipse-jee-juno-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
2) Extract it by executing a command line
tar -xzf eclipse-jee-juno-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
Or with Archive Manager extraction.
3) Move extracted eclipse folder to /opt/ folder
mv eclipse /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
4) Create an eclipse executable in your user path
sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
Create a file named eclipse
in /usr/bin/
with your preferred editor (nano
, gedit
, vi
...)
Copy this into it
#!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*
And save the file
5) Create a Gnome menu item
Create a file named eclipse.desktop
in /usr/share/applications/
with your preferred editor (nano
,gedit
, vi
...)
Copy this into it
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse Comment=Eclipse IDE Exec=eclipse Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm Terminal=false Type=ApplicationCategories=GNOME;Application;Development; StartupNotify=true
And save the file
6) Launch Eclipse
/opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean &
7) Now you can Lock Eclipse to the launcher bar by clicking right button on Lock to Laucher
Source from: http://askubuntu.com/questions/26632/how-to-install-eclipse