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This is guide, howto install latest Eclipse Mars.2 4.5.2 on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). This guide should work with Fedora 24/23/22/21/20/19/18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 7.2/6.8/5.11 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7.2/6.8/5.11 and even with earlier versions. Latest working version on CentOS/RHEL 5.11 is Eclipse Luna 4.4.2.

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 Mars.2 4.5.2 on Fedora 24/23/22/21, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7.2/6.8/5.11

1. Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 8

Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 8 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

2. Download Eclipse Mars.2 4.5.2

Download suitable version from www.eclipse.org/downloads. This guide uses Eclipse IDE for Java Developers version. Another popular versions are Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers and Eclipse for PHP Developers. Select also 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your system. You can download Eclipse Luna 4.4.2 for CentOS/RHEL 5.11 from here.

3. Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

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

## x86 - 32-bit ##
tar -xvzf eclipse-java-mars-2-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt

## x86_64 - 64-bit ##
tar -xvzf eclipse-java-mars-2-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 favorite 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 Mars.2 4.5.2
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true

8. Start Eclipse 4.5.2

From command line use eclipse command (as normal user!)

eclipse

From Desktop menu Gnome 3 Eclipse 4.4.2
Eclipse Luna SR1a 4.4.1 Launcher

From Desktop menu Gnome 2 and Eclipse
Eclipse SDK 3.6.2 Launcher Gnome

### 9. Eclipse 4.5 screenshot, running on Fedora 22 64-bit

Eclipse Mars 4.5 Running on Fedora 22

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'

and try again.