How to Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu Linux 15.04

Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu Linux 15.04

Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Eclipse is written mostly in Java and its primary use is for developing Java applications, but it may also be used to develop applications in other programming languages through the use of plugins, 

including: Ada, ABAP, C, C++, COBOL, Fortran, Haskell, JavaScript, Julia,Lasso, Lua, NATURAL, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Ruby (including Ruby on Rails framework), Rust, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Scheme, and Erlang. It can also be used to develop packages for the software Mathematica. Development environments include the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) for Java and Scala, Eclipse CDT for C/C++ and Eclipse PDT for PHP, among others. 

• How to Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu Linux 14.04

Eclipse needs java as pre-requisite , run following command to install java on your ubuntu 15.04 system.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

once the java installation is complete, download Eclipse according to your operating system architecture, i.e. 32 bit or 64 bit.

Download Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=linux

Once the download is complete, move the eclipse downloaded installer to /opt.

sudo mv eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz /opt

Now go into opt partition of your system and extract the eclipse installer

cd /opt
tar –xvf eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz

Create a launcher shortcut for Eclipse, create a desktop file, named eclipse.desktop in /usr/share/applications/ by running the following Gedit command.

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

It will launch an empty file, copy and paste the followings content into this empty file, as shown in following screenshot.

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Eclipse

Type=Application

Exec=/opt/eclipse/eclipse

Terminal=false

Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm

Comment=Integrated Development Environment

NoDisplay=false

Categories=Development;IDE;

Name[en]=eclipse.desktop

Save the file, and now run following command on terminal to automatically install this desktop file on your ubuntu system.

sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

As last step of the install, go to /usr/local/bin and create eclipse symlink, following two commands should take care of this:

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse

Congratulations, Eclipse has been installed successfully, launch it from Applications menu.

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