Eclipse: Difference between revisions

<li>Download the file, untar it into ~/opt </li>

<li> and make an executable launcher to start the program (/home/user/bin/eclipse)

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"

export ECLIPSE_HOME="$HOME/opt/eclipse"

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

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<li> start eclipse and add the extras through the 'help' menu </li>

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| text = to get Subclipse working on my Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex system, I had to install the Java bindings for Subversion (see http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL) and also modify my eclipse.ini settings}}

# provides the JavaHL libraries

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

Add to eclipse.ini

-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

=== PHPEclipse ===

In addition to installing Eclipse, you should definitely be sure to set the Java environement

sudo update-java-alternatives --list

That command should list something like

<pre>

</pre>

Then you can set the Sun Microsystems Java as the default with

sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun

To upgrade, you should be able to just