Sunday, April 16, 2017
Install Eclipse SDK on Fedora
Install Eclipse SDK on Fedora
Eclipse is an awesome IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).
Eclipse is an awesome IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.
It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.
It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).
Install Eclipse SDK 4.3.2 (Kepler) on Fedora 20/19/18, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/5.10
1. Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7
Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
2. Download Eclipse SDK 4.3.2 (Kepler)
Download suitable version from www.eclipse.org/downloads. This guide uses Eclipse Classic 4.3.2 version. Another popular versions are Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, Eclipse IDE for Java Developers and Eclipse for PHP Developers. Select also 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your system.
3. Change root user
su - |
4. Extract Eclipse package (example to /opt directory)
## x86 - 32-bit ## |
5. Add read permissions to all files
chmod -R +r /opt/eclipse |
6. Create Eclipse executable on /usr/bin path
touch /usr/bin/eclipse |
7. Create Gnome desktop launcher
## Create following file, with our favourite editor ## |
8. Start Eclipse 4.3.2
From command line use eclipse command
eclipse |
From Desktop menu Gnome 3 Eclipse 4.3.2