Base on some other articles guiding installation of Eclipse on Ubuntu, here are some steps that help you getting Eclipse 3.5 working on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
1. Install Sun Java JDK
#sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
2. Choose an icon
You can save this icon to your Desktop so later can be used for menu icon
3. Download Eclipse Galileo
You can go to official site http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and choose your edition, here I choose Eclipse for PHP Developer (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/R/eclipse-php-galileo-linux-gtk.tar.gz).
Save to your Desktop
4. Extract Eclipse
Open Terminal, and execute:
#cd ~/Desktop
#tar xzf eclipse-php-galileo-linux-gtk.tar.gz (replace your downloaded file name here)
#sudo mv eclipse /opt/eclipse
#sudo mv eclipse-galileo.png /opt/eclipse
#cd /opt
#sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
#sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
#cd /opt/eclipse
#sudo chmod +x eclipse
5. Create an executable shell for eclipse
Open terminal, execute the commands:
#sudo touch /usr/local/bin/eclipse (this assumes that /usr/local/bin is in the path)
#sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/eclipse
#sudo nano /usr/local/bin/eclipse
When file is opened with nano, enter the following:
#!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME=/opt/eclipse
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*
6. Create GNOME menu item
Open Terminal, execute the following commands:
#sudo nano /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
Enter the following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse Galileo IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/eclipse-galileo.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development
StartupNotify=True
7. Initialise eclipse
Open Terminal, execute:
#/opt/eclipse/eclipse –clean
8. From now on, you can choose to run Eclipse from menu Applications->Programming->Eclipse
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Finishing touches
If you can’t find a nice transparent file for the icon, i found one at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista-eclipse.png. Just download it to your desktop and rename it to eclipse-galileo.png before going through this setup.
Option click on Eclipse in Application>Development to add a shortcut to the panel or the desktop.
@whatdoesitwant: thanks for the icon, looks just great
After installation tried to create a new PHP Project – getting the following error –
Creation of element failed.
Reason:
Build path contains duplicate entry: ‘opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.php.core_2.1.0.v20090617-2314/Resources/language/php5/’ for project testphpproject
I got rid of this by click Finish on the first screen.
on step 5, after i type those command on nano. what next? coz i already follow all the instuction but nothing happen.. something is missing..
Worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.04 for Eclipse Galileo PDE package.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks, exactly what i wanted.
Thanks. Made my day
that’s cool!
thanks!!!
Thanks for these instructions. Galileo is now working fine on my machine (Sony NR360E)
Hi All,
I’ve done all the steps which has been mentioned above. But, when last step comes i.e. to initialize Eclipse by typing in the terminal – /opt/eclipse/eclipse –clean then following error comes : “bash: /opt/eclipse/eclipse: cannot execute binary file ” Plz guys help me out. How to get rid of that ?
This is an excellent guide. Thanks a lot for your effort and time in making this available to all the developers and eclipse and UBUNTU lovers.
However on 9.10, it looks like there is a bug with Eclipse. We need to add these below lines to the file at
/usr/local/bin/eclipse
#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/opt/eclipse-3.5/eclipse
Thanks to the below link for additional information on this. I thought that it would be handy for the team members those are looking in to this installation guide.
http://www.norio.be/blog/2009/10/problems-eclipse-buttons-ubuntu-910#comment-610
Thanks again for all your help,
Venkat
thnx! worked perfectly!