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Thursday, June 25, 2015

How to install Eclipse Mars 4.5 on Ubuntu

Installing Eclipse

  1. Download Eclipse from here
  2. Extract it and you will end up having a folder named eclipse


  3. Save it wherever you wish
    • I saved mine in ~/Programs/eclipse


Adding a launcher shortcut

  1. Press CTRL+ALT+T to open Terminal
  2. Run the following commands:

  3. sudo ln -s *eclipse path* /usr/bin/eclipse
    • make sure you replace *eclipse path* with the location where you previously saved eclipse - in my case it is ~/Programs/eclipse/eclipse

    sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

  4. After these commands, gedit - Ubuntu's default text editor - should have opened
  5. Copy the following text and paste it there:

  6. [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Eclipse
    Type=Application
    Exec=/home/henrique/Programs/eclipse/eclipse
    Terminal=false
    Icon=/home/henrique/Programs/eclipse/icon.xpm
    Comment=Integrated Development Environment
    NoDisplay=false
    Categories=Development;IDE;
    Name[en]=Eclipse
    X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.22


    • You need to replace the Exec and Icon paths to the location where you previously saved eclipse



  7. Save the text file and close gedit
  8. A shortcut should have been successfully created


  9. You may have to log off and back in for it to show up

34 comments:

  1. I have ubuntu 14.04 and attempted to follow the steps above for installing Mars eclipse.
    Unfortunately, the steps here did not work. It resulted in the error - "There was an error launching the application".

    Can you help on how to solve the problem.


    FYI, I downloaded the linux 64 bit version of eclipse mars from the links you provided above

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    1. Have you installed jdk?

      sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

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    2. This the message I get when I run that on the terminal:
      E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpgk/lock - open (11: Resource temporaraly unavailable)
      E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dgpk/), is another process using it?

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    3. ok, It got accepted now, though the the result when I run it now is:
      E: unable to locate package openjdk-7-jdk

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  2. Thank you so much for Help.

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  3. Thanks a lot. Followed your instructions and it works just fine.
    Very nice job.

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  4. Thanks!
    It works great.
    But when I click on my icon nothing happens

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    1. yeah nothings happen on clicking the icon, how to start eclipse

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  5. Thank you very much! This tutorial is really helpful! Will share!

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  6. Got it working. Thank you!

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  7. Hi Henrique,
    Thanks a lot for this tutorial, is perfect!


    -Ricardo

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  8. I have ubuntu 14.04 & by mistakely install eclipse
    3.8 but i need to intall eclipse mars !! Please help

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    1. Press Alt
      Write Eclipse
      Select the Eclipse version you installed by mistake
      Click "Uninstall"
      :)

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  9. Funciona en linux mint 17
    Gracias

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  10. I got an error after I save the gedit file. It says Gtk-Warning. I just ignored it and eclipse won't launch.

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  11. simple and precise description, it works perfect! Thanks!

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  12. Not working...getting an error "An error has occurred. See the log file null."

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  13. Is this eclipse 2015 , where I could use it for mobile app , phone gap?

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  14. How Do I know X-Desktop-File-Install-Version of my downloaded eclipse?

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