Eclipse is a open-source development environment used to develop applications . it supports various programming languages and can be installed in all Operating systems (Windows , Linux, Mac)

In this article we can see about installing eclipse in ubuntu 14.04 Manually.

Install eclipse in ubuntu 14.04 (Latest version)

Step 1 » Update repostories.

sudo apt-get update

Step 2 » Install Java by the below command.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Step 3 » Download latest eclipse from here ( Download Eclipse )

Step 4 » Move the downloaded package to /opt directory.

sudo mv Downloads/eclipse-standard-kepler-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz /opt/

Step 5 » Unzip the downloaded file.

cd /opt

sudo tar -xvf eclipse-standard-kepler-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

Step 6 » Create a new file eclipse.desktop in /usr/share/applications/ and add the below code .

[Desktop Entry] Name=Eclipse Type=Application Exec=/opt/eclipse/eclipse Terminal=false Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm Comment=Integrated Development Environment NoDisplay=false Categories=Development;IDE; Name[en]=eclipse.desktop 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [ Desktop Entry ] Name = Eclipse Type = Application Exec = / opt / eclipse / eclipse Terminal = false Icon = / opt / eclipse / icon . xpm Comment = Integrated Development Environment NoDisplay = false Categories = Development ; IDE ; Name [ en ] = eclipse . desktop