Eclipse is not mere an IDE, it's smart!
Open source community and non-profit organization.
"Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and Webgain formed the initial eclipse.org Board of Stewards in November 2001".
As the moon eclipses the sun, your mind would be eclipsed by Eclipse such that you fall in <3 with this smart peace of technology, it has a lavish support on different coding languages and many plug-ins to meet your needs.
All in all it a must try and one of the famous IDE, all most all the coder are aware of.
$ sudo apt-get install eclipse will install Eclipse 3.5!
But to get it from the source and install we can follow the steps below :
$ sudo su
$ cd /opt
$ wget
$ tar xzvf eclipse-java-galileo-linux-gtk*.tar.gz
$ mv eclipse eclipse3.5
$ cd /bin ; sudo nano eclipse
Add the below and save
#/usr/bin/bash
`/opt/eclipse3.5/eclipse -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M &> /dev/null` &
The PermSize is from 128MB to 512MB , may be changed as per your RAM.
$ chmod u+x ~/bin/eclipse
You can then create an customized application launcher with the normal procedure.
For the easy of it, i have attached a file which gives you the steps to just run it from your terminal.
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Fri, 02/05/2010 - 16:27
Like chuck, I found my new install of Eclipse hung at launch just showing the floating logo screen.
I was able to fix this my setting the java alternatives (using galternative) to use /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sum/jre/bin/java, rather than /usr/bin/gij-4.4
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 11:26
Steven, the debate is still alive and keeps varying on which wins on the benchmark.
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 21:09
Are you sure Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala includes Eclipse 3.2? In my system it says 3.5.1 :
$ aptitude show eclipse
Package: eclipse
State: not installed
Version: 3.5.1+repack~1-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Uncompressed Size: 73.7k
Depends: eclipse-jdt, eclipse-pde
Description: Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE
The Eclipse Platform is an open and extensible platform for anything and yet
nothing in particular. It provides a foundation for constructing and running
integrated software-development tools. The Eclipse Platform allows tool
builders to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's
tools so seamlessly you can't tell where one tool ends and another starts.
This package provides the whole Eclipse SDK, along with the Java Development
Tools (JDT) and the Plugin Development Environment (PDE).
Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 21:13
Hendy Irawan very true now its packed for Karmic, but none the less getting is from the source and installing always helps, if not today tomorrow for sure.
Sun, 11/01/2009 - 22:56
Ok, thank you!
Only problem now is for whatever reason, whether installed through synaptic or downloaded from Eclipse's website, I can not get it to start. Every time I start it, it just hangs at the splash screen. I have all dependencies and when I enable debug logging, it loads my profile and everything fine...but just never removes from that position.
Any idea?
Maybe, if you could, start your eclipse with debug logging on and show me the output so I may compare it to mine?
Wed, 10/28/2009 - 02:28
I believe you have a mistake in your tutorial. Please, correct me if I am wrong but:
You say to change directory to opt (cd /opt) and then execute wget and the tar command. Then you say to change directory to bin (cd /bin) and copy and paste:
#/usr/bin/bash
`~/bin/packages/eclipse3.5/eclipse -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M &> /dev/null` &
Following that line, it seems that you have it installed to:
/home//bin/packages/eclipse3.5
Whereas I think the script should read:
#/usr/bin/bash
`/opt/eclipse3.5/eclipse -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M &> /dev/null` &
Thank you for your time
Fri, 10/30/2009 - 21:46
Yes, you are right, the content is edited now.
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