How to Install The Latest Eclipse in Ubuntu 14.04
1. Verify you have jdk already installed or not ? if NOT then follow This tutorial.
2. Download latest Eclipse.
- Check your OS type > Click on Settings ICON > System Settings > Details > Overview
- Then download eclipse from Here.
3. Extract Eclipse to default location /opt/ for global use.
Open terminal and run the command below to extract Eclipse to /opt folder:
$ cd /opt
$ sudo tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/eclipse-*.tar.gz
- Once extract done, you will see the eclipse folder under /opt folder.
4. Now Create a launcher for Eclipse
- Go to Terminal and fire below command
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
- command will create and open the eclipse.desktop file with gedit text editor, add below code to the file
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Eclipse 4
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
- Save and Close the editor.
DONE !! Now go to search and type eclipse and happy coding...