Install Eclipse SDK 4.2.1 (Juno) on Fedora 18/17, CentOS/RHEL 6.3/5.8

This is guide, howto install latest Eclipse SDK 4.2.1 (Juno) on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). This guide should work with Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and even with earlier versions.

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in system. It is written primarily in Java and can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of various plug-ins, other languages including C,C++, COBOL, Python, Perl, PHP, Scala and Ruby (including Ruby on Rails framework).

Install Eclipse SDK 4.2.1 (Juno) on Fedora 18/17, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/5.8

1. Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7 or Java JDK 6

Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 6 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

2. Download Eclipse SDK 4.2.1 (Juno)

Download suitable version from www.eclipse.org/downloads. This guide uses Eclipse Classic 4.2.1 version. Another popular versions are Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, Eclipse IDE for Java Developers and Eclipse for PHP Developers. Select also 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your system.

3. Change root user

su - ## OR ## sudo -i

4. Extract Eclipse package (example to /opt directory)

## x86 - 32-bit ## tar -xvzf eclipse-SDK-4.2.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt   ## x86_64 - 64-bit ## tar -xvzf eclipse-SDK-4.2.1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz -C /opt

5. Add read permissions to all files

chmod -R +r /opt/eclipse

6. Create Eclipse executable on /usr/bin path

touch /usr/bin/eclipse chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse   ## Open eclipse file with your favourite editor ## nano -w /usr/bin/eclipse   ## Paste following content to file ## #!/bin/sh export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"   $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

7. Create Gnome desktop launcher

## Create following file, with our favourite editor ## /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop   ## Add following content to file and save ## [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse Comment=Eclipse SDK 4.2.1 Exec=eclipse Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=GNOME;Application;Development; StartupNotify=true

8. Start Eclipse 4.2.1

From command line use eclipse command

eclipse

From Desktop menu Gnome 3 Eclipse 4.2.1

From Desktop menu Gnome 2 and Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)

9. Eclipse 3.6 screenshots, running (and starting) on Fedora 13 32-bit and CentOS 5.5 64-bit

Eclipse loading

Eclipse 3.6 running on Fedora 13 32-bit

Eclipse 3.6 running on CentOS 5.5 64-bit

Troubleshooting

If you get something like following errors:

Failed to load the JNI shared library /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
Or
/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

Then do following:

chcon -t execmem_exec_t '/opt/eclipse/eclipse'