How to install Eclipse 4.2 on Ubuntu 12.10 -- amd64

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Because Eclipse packages in Ubuntu are out of date.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