Eclipse Installation

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In this tutorial I will show you how to install Eclipse using Ubuntu 16.04.

Install JDK 8

  1. sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

Download Oxygen.

  1. tar -xzvf eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz
  2. ~/eclipse-installer/eclipse-inst

Install Eclipse

Eclipse Desktop Shortcut

  1. cd ~/Desktop
  2. touch eclipse.desktop
  3. chmod u+x eclipse.desktop
  4. nano eclipse.desktop
  5.  
  6. #Add the below to the file
  7.  
  8. [Desktop Entry]
  9. Type=Application
  10. Name=Eclipse
  11. Icon=~/eclipse/java-oxygen/eclipse/icon.xpm
  12. Exec=~/eclipse/java-oxygen/eclipse/eclipse
  13. Terminal=false
  14. Categories=Development;IDE;Java;
  15. StartupWMClass=Eclipse