72 Comments

1. Luciano / September 9, 2010

   Very good, thanks!

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2. Adam / September 15, 2010

   Great tutorial! thx for the info! Work like a charm on Fedora 13 64-bit

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3. Wesley Guisso / September 23, 2010

   Very good, thanks!

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4. Danny / September 26, 2010

   Thanks JR! Excellent guide!

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5. Analía-san / October 12, 2010

   Thank you! It was very useful!!

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6. Andres / December 5, 2010

   I did this installation, which is great. However now I need to do a clean removal of this eclipse installation. How can I properly remove the reference from the usr/bin/ path?

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   • JR / December 6, 2010

     Hi Andres,

     If you installed Eclipse using this guide exactly, then removal is very simple, just remove following files and directory (as root):

     ## Remove Eclipse launcher ##
     rm /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
      
     ## Remove Eclipse executable ##
     rm /usr/bin/eclipse
      
     ## Remove Eclipse Path ##
     rm -rf /opt/eclipse

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   • Muhammad Waqar Arshad / July 1, 2011

     Hi!

     The installation procedure for eclipse which is published by is awsom. It made it so easy to install eclipse on llinux for me. It is really helpfull. Now the eclipse is installed can you please spare sometime to write a few tutorials for debugging C++ code on eclipse (In case you already have written some tutorials) kindly let me know of them.

     Regards

     Waqar

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     • JR / July 2, 2011

       Hi Waqar,

       Nice to hear that you like this install method! :) Yes I can write more Eclipse tutorials, but I’m not C/C++ programmer. My main programming languages are PHP, Java, Perl and Bash.

       I have currently two guides, which are directy related with Eclipse:
       Install Android SDK and Eclipse ADT
       Install Eclipse plugins guide

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7. Cary / January 2, 2011

   In case the previous instruction does not work .. here’s another suggestion to correct the “Failed to load the JNI shared library /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so” error:

   chcon -t texrel_shlib_t ‘/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so’

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8. Vitali / January 4, 2011

   Thanks for chcon hint. Solved my problem

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9. Keith Wolf / January 20, 2011

   Thanks for that, helped me sort through the process.

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10. odeng / January 24, 2011

    very – very good. i was waited next tutorial’s

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11. Jordan / February 14, 2011

    Nice write-up. Thanks!

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12. Chitresh / February 19, 2011

    Very Good Tutorial. Just one comment, sometimes after installing on CentOS when you get
    Failed to load the JNI shared library /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so error, you can also resolve it by updating eclipse.ini file with the correct java path.

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13. geek / March 13, 2011

    Thanks a lot!!!

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14. Bruno Furtado Montes Oliveira / March 15, 2011

    Thanks so much!

    I’ve been looking for this for 3 days!

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15. rocky / March 17, 2011

    Launch failed.Binary not found !

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16. rocky / March 17, 2011

    help me. thank so

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17. JR / March 18, 2011

    Hi rocky,

    What happens if you run following command:

    /opt/eclipse/eclipse

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    • rocky / March 18, 2011

      thank so much.
      when i run command /opt/clipse/eclipse then eclipse run normal.
      but when i run a C/C++ project –> Launch failed.Binary not found !

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      • JR / March 21, 2011

        How do you try to “run” C/C++ project? Do you mean compile and run?

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        • Madalin / March 28, 2011

          eclipse is only the ide, you have to install build tools needed for this (like gcc, g++, make, autoconf etc.)

          Basic for compiling are: gcc and cpp which will pull needed dependencies,

          but I recomend do a yum groupinstall “Development tools” (I think this is english, try a yum grouplist to be sure)

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          • rocky / April 17, 2011

            thank so. i installed :D

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18. Vincent / March 28, 2011

    Excellent ! Thank you

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19. Madalin / March 28, 2011

    some notes on this:

    - i created a group eclipse and added all users that use eclipse to that group
    - i chmod g+swr on all folders of eclipse instalation
    - in desktop shortcat I used only name eclipse, not hole path, so it uses the current theme icon (lot nicer)

    now any trusted user in group eclipse can run it and update it.

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    • JR / March 28, 2011

      Hi Madalin,

      Thanks for excellent notes! Really like your way to create eclipse group.

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20. Madalin / March 28, 2011

    additional notes:

    - add update site (official) http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios
    - install any plugin you need (like pdt, wtc, C++ etc.)

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21. rkd / March 28, 2011

    I am getting that pesky error, driving me batty. Yet when I try the workaround, I get:

    chcon: failed to change context of /opt/eclipse/eclipse to user_u:object_r:execmem_exec_t: Invalid argument

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    • JR / March 28, 2011

      Hi rkd,

      Did you followed install guide exactly? Did you run this command as root user?

      Could you post full copy from your console (command and output, or even screenshot), when you run this command.

      And please post output of following command:

      ls -la /opt/eclipse

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22. Luis Carlos Moreira da Costa / April 4, 2011

    Very Good!

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23. nate / April 12, 2011

    Oh man, this is so much easier than wrestling with the add/remove software GUI in Fedora 14.

    Thanks a bunch! I’m new to Linux and your tutorials have gotten me unstuck a number of times.

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24. maximus / April 18, 2011

    Hi,
    Thank you for this tutorial, but I have a problem, in fact when I try to launch eclipse from “application->programming->eclipse” I have the following message:
    Could not launch eclipse
    Failed to execute child process “eclipse” (no such file or directory)

    I hope you’ll be able to help me and thank you again.

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    • Tim / January 15, 2012

      You will get “No such file or directory” when:
      1) Your java is 64 bit (check java -version)
      2) Your eclipse is 32 bit (check your download)

      To fix – download the “x86-64″ version of eclipse.

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      • JR / January 15, 2012

        Hi Tim,

        Yep, that’s the way it is. :)

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25. André Brazil / June 4, 2011

    Thank’s
    I’m using on fedora 15 and I was having problems with Eclipse helios.

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26. Jacob Church / June 15, 2011

    Why not just install Eclipse 3.6.2 on Fedora 15 with yum?

    #yum install eclipse-jdt

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    • JR / June 15, 2011

      Hi Jacob,

      You could install it with yum and it’s very good method install Eclipse 3.6.2 on Fedora 15 currently, but if you are wondering why this guide exists, then think following things:
      - This guide is universal method and you could actually use this installation guide almost every Linux system with Desktop and Java installed.
      - You could run and control multiple versions of Eclipse at the same time. You could example run 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 same time. With (default) yum installation this is not possible.
      - You could easily move to next version when it’s released, just install it another location, test it and later replace old installation.
      - You get always latest Eclipse version.
      - You could run yum update without fear that you mess your Eclipse installation if there is update available.

      And yes I see your point, but I have my own reasons why I want to install Eclipse this way… :)

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27. Steve / August 4, 2011

    Thank you for this tutorial. I have one question though. Using KDE, are there any changes that should be made in the desktop launcher? You specified gnome, so I just wa.nted to ask. Thanks

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    • JR / August 6, 2011

      Hi Steve,

      I think KDE should also launch gnome launchers, so try it… :) You might have to log out and log back in…do you get it working?

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28. Steve / August 9, 2011

    Worked great thanks!

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29. ushap / September 25, 2011

    Hi

    Thanks for the tutorial.
    I installed eclipse in fedora 13 using the guide exactly.
    but when trying to run eclipse,i have the following message
    /opt/eclipse/eclipse:No such file or directory.

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    • JR / September 25, 2011

      Hi ushap,

      Could you post output of following commands:

      ls -la /opt
       
      ## AND ##
      ls -la /opt/eclipse

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      • usha / September 26, 2011

        Hi

        This is the output:

        ls -la /opt
        drwxrwxr-x. 8 507 1109 4096 Sep 26 00:10 eclipse
        drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4096 Jun 15 2007 jdk1.6.0_02
        -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 76989270 Aug 16 20:12 jdk1.6.0_02.tgz

        ls -la /opt/eclipse
        drwxrwxr-x. 8 507 1109 4096 Sep 26 00:10 .
        drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Sep 25 16:18 ..
        drwxrwxr-x. 2 507 1109 4096 Jun 14 05:37 about_files
        -rw-rw-r–. 1 507 1109 18909 Jun 14 03:48 about.html
        -rw-rw-r–. 1 507 1109 95367 Jun 14 05:37 artifacts.xml
        drwxrwxr-x. 5 507 1109 4096 Jun 14 05:37 configuration
        drwxrwxr-x. 2 507 1109 4096 Jun 14 05:37 dropins
        -rw-rw-r–. 1 507 1109 9022 Dec 11 2006 icon.xpm
        -rwxr-xr-x. 1 507 1109 266168 Dec 11 2006 libcairo-swt.so
        -rw-rw-r–. 1 507 1109 8951 Feb 5 2011 notice.html
        drwxrwxr-x. 4 507 1109 4096 Jun 14 05:36 p2
        drwxrwxr-x. 3 507 1109 4096 Jun 14 05:37 plugins
        drwxrwxr-x. 2 507 1109 4096 Jun 14 05:37 readme

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        • JR / September 26, 2011

          You’ll be missing some files /opt/eclipse directory. You don’t have eclipse binary file and that’s why it’s not working.

          Was the Eclipse tar package extraction successful? You could check your Eclipse tar package content is eclipse binary also missing there and if yes then download it again and try to install it again.

          And please let me know do get it working? :)

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          • usha / September 26, 2011

            Hi,

            I will install once again and let you know.
            Thank You.

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          • usha / September 26, 2011

            Hi,

            I downloaded and installed once again.Its working now.
            Thanks.

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            • JR / September 26, 2011

              Excellent! :)

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30. anon / September 30, 2011

    To Jacob who was wondering why to do this instead of yum. I think the main reason, in addition to the multiple instances referred to above, is that for people on some versions of Linux, the repositories are very limited in terms of version number. You might critically need a function that only exists in 3.7, and can’t be found in 3.2. On Centos, the only version available is 3.2.1. This way I can get version 3.7.

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31. anon / September 30, 2011

    To be clear, on this instruction:

    ## 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 $*

    The file nano -w /usr/bin/eclipse is mostly binary from what I can tell. You want us anyhow to past the following into that file?
    #!/bin/sh
    export ECLIPSE_HOME=”/opt/eclipse”

    and the third line as well after a carriage return? I wasn’t 100% sure if the 3rd line was just for Bash or for the file, I put it into the file, but the process isn’t working for me. When I start Eclipse it just thinks for a while and then does nothing.

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32. anon / September 30, 2011

    Got it to work. I don’t know why but touch creates a file with 82 binary lines. I ran:

    rm eclipse
    echo “hey” >> eclipse
    nano eclipse [then delete 'hey' and add the lines you put above]
    chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse

    then all is good! I have no idea what that other junk was or what the deal with it is.

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    • JR / September 30, 2011

      Hi anon,

      This sounds very strange.

      You could also use just nano or any editor to create empty file. :)

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33. Aladin / October 2, 2011

    Your are a hero man! A HERO

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34. Harshit / October 9, 2011

    Great tutorial…thanx a ton….
    but want to point out one thing that i got confused whether “$ECLIPSE_HOME /eclipse $*” had to be included in the text file or not..but later figured out that it has to be included…..

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    • JR / October 11, 2011

      Hi Harshit,

      Nice to hear that you got it working! :)

      And yes I see your point and yes full /usr/bin/eclipse file content should be:

      #!/bin/sh
      export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"
       
      $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

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35. Anshul / October 12, 2011

    Hello Friends,

    Seems like installing eclipse on RedHat 5 64bit remains a dream for me. I am struggling it from long time. This post gave me some hope. I follow the steps and could able to install it on RHEL5. Here are the list of issues after that
    ISSUE 1: No desktop shortcu
    ISSUE 2: Not able to launch from console
    ISSUE 3: Application->programming->Eclipse, no UI shows up after a long wait, seems it crashed here.

    I am using a VMWare virutal machine.

    Any help will be appreciated.

    Thanks
    Anshul
    [mail removed]

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    • Anshul / October 12, 2011

      on launching from console error reported is though running as “root”

      /usr/bin/eclipse: line 5: /opt/eclipse/eclipse: Permission denied

      and, ls -la /opt/eclipse

      [root@susanth-cobia-t-165204024116 eclipse]# ls -la
      total 704
      dr–r–r– 9 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:27 .
      drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 14:42 ..
      dr–r–r– 2 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:26 about_files
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 18909 Sep 9 23:51 about.html
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 87914 Sep 16 07:26 artifacts.xml
      dr–r–r– 5 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:27 configuration
      dr–r–r– 2 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:27 dropins
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 71023 Mar 22 2011 eclipse
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 410 Sep 16 07:27 eclipse.ini
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 59 Jul 29 2010 .eclipseproduct
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 16536 Feb 26 2005 epl-v10.html
      dr–r–r– 46 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:26 features
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 9022 Dec 11 2006 icon.xpm
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 335360 Dec 11 2006 libcairo-swt.so
      -r–r–r– 1 100 users 8951 Feb 5 2011 notice.html
      dr–r–r– 5 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:26 p2
      dr–r–r– 10 100 users 28672 Sep 16 07:26 plugins
      dr–r–r– 2 100 users 4096 Sep 16 07:26 readme

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      • JR / October 12, 2011

        Hi Anshul,

        Try to following (as root):

        chmod 755 /opt/eclipse/eclipse

        And then try to start with following command as normal user:

        /opt/eclipse/eclipse

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36. kaz / October 16, 2011

    Thank you very much. I very appreciate it.

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37. Nipun / October 27, 2011

    Hi
    I installed as per the instructions mentioned on your site.Everything installed fine.But when i run eclipse,even my hello world program doesn’t run.The console is always showing
    No consoles to display at this time.

    I had also installed Netbeans which works absolutely fine.What could be the issue?

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    • JR / October 27, 2011

      Hi Nipun,

      If it’s not working automatically then try following:

      1. Click your project right mouse button
      2. Select Run As > Run Configurations…
      3. Create new run configuration for your application
      4. Check Common tab and Standard Input and Output section.
      5. Enable Allocate console (necessary for input)

      Then another way is start eclipse from command line and check do get any errors when you try to run eclipse?

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38. Carfax / November 28, 2011

    My Goodness, I spent hours and hours trying to edit with gedit and Vim…. So stupid, knowing they were binary anyway….
    Thanx a whole lot man, You’re an angel from Above

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39. anurag / December 1, 2011

    Thanks! Really Helpful.

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40. hajo / December 1, 2011

    i didn´t get Eclipse launcher in my desktop. i created the file eclipse.desktop using nano editor and copied the configuration and pressed Ctrl+O and then exited.

    For me other modes are working like thru command line; Applications->Programming->Eclipse.

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    • JR / December 1, 2011

      Hi hajo,

      You shouldn’t get launcher on your desktop, this means just desktop launcher on your Applications->Programming->Eclipse menu. If you want launcher on desktop then you have to click menu icon with right button and select “add launcher to desktop” or something like that. This is not even possible on Gnome 3 (3.0 and 3.2), but if you have some other desktop or example Gnome 2 then you can add launcher to desktop.

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      • hajo / December 4, 2011

        hi JR,
        thanks great blog and nice support.
        It worked.

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41. Soonl / January 2, 2012

    carry thanks !! you helped me

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42. Winston / January 4, 2012

    after doing the above, I get:

    error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    any ideas?

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    • JR / January 4, 2012

      Hi Winston,

      So, what command you are running when you get this error message?

      Could you post output of following command:

      java -version

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43. Brian / January 12, 2012

    Very helpful. Thanks!

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44. deepthi / January 26, 2012

    A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
    must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine
    was found after searching the following locations:
    /opt/eclipse/jre/bin/java
    java in your current PATH

    when i gave the command eclipse i have got the reply above plz help me

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    • JR / January 26, 2012

      Hi deepthi,

      Do you have Java installed?

      Could you post output of following command:

      java -version

      Reply