Eclipse

This document describes the the installation of the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

The Eclipse IDE integrates Editors, Compilers, Debuggers and Runtime-Environment into one User-Interface.
Advantage of Eclipse is, that Software-Development can be done without switsching between different tools.
Each part (Editor, Compiler, etc.) of Eclipse can be either Open-Source-Software or a sold product of a company which adapted their product to run within Eclipse.

Credits:

There is an excellent detailed description with screenshots of the Australian company TUSC.
To go directly to their description please follow the link: www.tusc.com.au/tutorial/html/chap1.html.

I will restrict my description to a short one, stating only 'headlines'.

Prerequisites:

• Operating-system Linux** with Fedora-Core-3 or higher installed.

• Logged on as user, wo will use Eclipse as an IDE; in our example called developer01.

• Java-Runtime-Environment installed.
  Eclipse needs a SDK; JRE is not sufficient.

Installation-instructions:

The most current version (3.1 at the time of the last revision of this document) can be downloaded as zipped file from the following internet-site:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads .

As this site is not very well strutured, preferres the download for Windows** and changes from time to time, please look for the link 'Other downloads for 3.1' and click it.
Within the following site you will find a file named eclipse-SDK-3.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz.
This is the file for Linux on Pentium-Processors with GNOME-desktop.
If your environment has another operating-system (e.g. Solaris), processor (e.g. AMD 64) or desktop (e.g. Motif) please chose the correct file.

Download the zipped file to a directory of your choice (furtheron referred as download_directory).

After the download is complete, change to the home-directory of the user (developer01 in this example):
cd /home/developer01
tar -xvzf /download_directory/eclipse-SDK-3.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz

Adding a Launcher:

The adding of a 'Launcher' is described under Add a Launcher .
The parameters are
Name: Eclipse
Generic name: (leave blank)
Comment: Eclipse Integrated Development Environment
Command: /home/developer01/eclipse/eclipse
        (where developer01 is the user in this example)
Type: Application (select)
Icon: /home/developer01/eclipse/icon.xpm
Run in Terminal: No (do not check)

Test:

Klick to the symbol created by the launcher - Eclipse should open an empty workspace.

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