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InstallEclipseIDEonUbuntuLinux
15.04
June23,2015byAun

EclipseisawellknownIntegratedDevelopmentEnvironment.Itisusedbydevelopersallaroundthe
worldtocodetheirapplication,itisprimarilydevelopedinJava,butprogrammerscanuseittocodetheir
applicationsinvariouslanguageslikeC/C++,COBOL,Fortran,Perl,PHP,Python,RubyonRailsetc.Itis
acrossplatformapplicationandrunsfineonMicrosoftWindows,Linux,SolarisandMacOS.
Itoffersabaseworkspaceandanextensiblepluginsystemforcustomization.Theveryfirstversionof
eclipsewaslaunchedinJune2004andithasbeenunderconsistentdevelopmenttilldate.Everythingin
eclipseisaplugin,soitsprettyeasytointegratenewpluginstoextenditsfunctionality.Thereareboth
paid,andfreethirdpartypluginsavailabletocustomizethefunctionalityofthiswonderfuldevelopment
environment.EclipseprovidestoolsforServer,WebandModelingplatforms.

InstallingEclipseonubuntu
InstallingEclipseonubuntuisnotverycomplexprocess,firstofallmakesuretoinstallJavaonyourLinux
system,Eclipseneedsjavaasprerequisite,runfollowingcommandtoinstalljavaonyourubuntu15.04
system.
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Itmighttakesomemomentstodownloadandinstalljava,oncetheinstallationiscomplete,download
Eclipseaccordingtoyouroperatingsystemarchitecture,i.e.32bitor64bit.
Oncethedownloadiscomplete,movetheeclipsedownloadedinstallerto/opt.
sudo mv eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz /opt

Nowgointooptpartitionofyoursystem.
cd /opt

Extracttheeclipseinstallerhere.
tar xvf eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz
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Weareonthemostimportantstageofinstallationnow,createadesktopfile,namedeclipse.desktopin
/usr/share/applications/byrunningthefollowingGeditcommand.
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Itwilllaunchanemptyfile,copyandpastethefollowingsintothisemptyfile,asshowninfollowing
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

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Savethefile,andnowrunfollowingcommandonterminaltoautomaticallyinstallthisdesktopfileonyour
ubuntusystem.
sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Aslaststepoftheinstall,goto/usr/local/binandcreateeclipsesymlink,followingtwocommandsshould
takecareofthis:
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse

Congratulations,Eclipsehasbeeninstalledsuccessfully,launchitfromApplicationsmenu.
Itwillaskyoutospecifyworkspacewhenloaded,oncedone,mainpagewillbeloaded.

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Startcodingyourprogramsnow

Conclusion
Eclipsehasmillionsofusersallaroundtheworld,itsworkslikecharmonalloperatingsystemsandso
faritisconsideredoneofthebestIDEsforwritingsoftwareapplications.Hopeyouenjoyedthearticle,do
letusknowincomments

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