4 Sep 09

Eclipse latest version is Galileo and its not available from ubuntu archive I just finished installing it on my machine i thought I will share instructions with my readers.
So here we have a step by step instruction to install Eclipse Galileo (3.5) on Ubuntu mine is Hardy

Lets start with creating a directory where we want to install

mkdir /bin/ide

cd  /bin/ide

you can manually download the installable from one of the available mirrors or you can use wget for same I prefer using wget

wget http://d2u376ub0heus3.cloudfront.net/galileo/eclipse-java-galileo-linux-gtk.tar.gz

than we need to unzip the contents of the zip file and we are almost done

tar xzvf eclipse-java-galileo-linux-gtk .tar.gz

You can set the eclipse executable to your path

PATH=$PATH:/bin/ide/eclipse

This is not the best way to do it but still does the job alternatively you can create a simple shell file and keep it in bin directory whcih just calls eclipse and you are good to go.


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2 Comments.

  • Varun says:

    Thanks, pretty useful.

    For eclipse, one of the most useful shortcut keys is ‘Ctrl + Shift + L’. It opens up a menu of all shortcuts and their description.

  • I am glad that you found it useful.
    Thanks for the shortcut I didn’t knew about it thats really cool



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