Eclipse installation

I'm working as a Web developer and I use Eclipse a lot as my IDE. Before you can use Eclipse, you must have Java installed in your system, here's how :

1. Go to Sun's website http://java.sun.com and select the Java JDK or JRE that you want. In my case downloaded j2sdk1.5_1.5.0 Update 7.
2. Because I want to create a deb so first install the required packages :
   
   sudo apt-get install fakeroot java-common
3. And then create the deb file for the install
   
   fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin
4. Then install the deb file
   
   sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update07_i386.deb
5. Now make Sun's Java the default by running this command and selecting it
   
   sudo update-alternatives --config java



Test your installation by execute command javac



Now here's how to get Eclipse run on your system :

1. Download Eclipse from here
2. Extract it to /opt with
   
   sudo tar xvfz eclipse-SDK-3.2-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt
3. Change owner of Eclipse directory with
   
   sudo chmod -R yourname:yourname /opt/eclipse
4. Start Eclipse with /opt/eclipse/eclipse
   
   

You can also add a launcher for Eclipse in your panel, here's how :

1. Right click at your chosen panel, select "Add New Item"
2. Select Launcher and click "Add"
3. At column Name, enter : Eclipse
4. Select an image file for launcher from /opt/eclipse, select icon.xpm
5. At column Command, enter : /opt/eclipse/eclipse
6. Click "Close"
   
   

Done. Now you have Eclipse as your IDE.





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