How to Install Eclipse Oxygen IDE on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04
For developers looking for a great IDE platform to build their applications and manage their codes, Eclipse should be a great place to start… Eclipse is a popular Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but also works with C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE and other languages..
This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to easily install Eclipse Oxygen IDE installer on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 desktop…
Eclipse is not only good at developing applications but you can use its collection of tools to easily enhance your Eclipse desktop IDE, including GUI builders and tools for modeling, charting and reporting, testing, and more.
To install Eclipse on Ubuntu, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Java JDK8
Eclipse requires Java JDK to be installed on the system you want to use… At this time, only Java JDK 8 is fully compatible.. to install JDK, use the steps below:
The easiest way to install Oracle Java JDK 8 on Ubuntu is via a third party PPA… To add that PPA, run the commands below
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
After running the commands above, you should see a prompt to accept the PPA key onto Ubuntu… accept and continue
Now that the PPA repository has been added to Ubuntu, run the commands below to download Oracle Java 9 installer…. the installer should install the latest Java JDK 9 on your Ubuntu machines.
sudo apt update sudo apt install oracle-java8-installer
When you run the commands above you’ll be prompted to access the license terms of the software… accept and continue..
Set Oracle JDK8 as default, to do that, install the oracle-java8-set-default package. This will automatically set the JAVA env variable.
sudo apt install oracle-java8-set-default
The command above will automatically set Java 9 as the default… and that should complete your installation, you can check you java version by running following command.
javac -version
Step 2: Download Eclipse Oxygen
Now that Java JDK 8 is installed, got and download Eclipse Oxygen IDE package for your systems.. the link below can be used to get it.
Extract the downloaded package to the /opt directory using the commands below… by default Eclipse package should be downloaded into the ~/Downloads folder of your home directory…
Step 3: Install Eclipse IDE
Use the commands below to extract the content in the ~/Downloads folder… The next line launches the installer…
tar xfz ~/Downloads/eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz ~/Downloads/eclipse-installer/eclipse-inst
Select the package IDE you want to install and continue…
Use the onscreen instructions to complete the installer.. Accept the default installation directory and continue
Next, accept the license terms and continue… wait for Eclipse installer to download and install all the packages..
After downloading the installer should complete… all you have to do is launch the program…
Step 3: Create Eclipse App Launcher
Now that Eclipse is downloaded and installed, create a launcher for the application… to do that, run the commands below
nano .local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
Next, copy and paste the content below into the file and save
[Desktop Entry] Name=Eclipse JEE Oxygen Type=Application Exec=/home/richard/eclipse/jee-oxygen/eclipse/eclipse Terminal=false Icon=/home/richard/eclipse/jee-oxygen/eclipse/icon.xpm Comment=Integrated Development Environment NoDisplay=false Categories=Development;IDE; Name[en]=Eclipse
Replace the highlighted username (richard) with your own account name… also, the Exec = location and icon.xpm should depend on where Eclipse got installed on your system..
Save the file and exit…
You should then have a launcher for Eclipse JEE Oxygen… open Dash or the activities overview and search for Eclipse… then launch.
To create additional IDEs, you must repeat step 3 by launching the installer again and created an application launcher for that IDE…
When the app launches, you should be able to configure it for your environment..
Enjoy!
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Wonderful instructions – they helped me a lot.
So I’m going to point out a couple things.
Step 3: Install Eclipse IDE
I didn’t see the command to change into the download directory. when I issues the command as is, it created the directory in ~
do the second command didn’t work – easy to figure out and fix. but . .
Step 3: Create Eclipse App Launcher
step 3 again?
and for me it was “cpp-oxygen” not “jee-oxygen” because . . . well you know.
Thanks a lot.
I have installed the Eclipse but i can’t get the icon to the desktop. I am having this error ” error writing .local/share/application/eclipse.desktop: no such file or directory
even i am facing the same. any resolution?
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i have installed jdk 10 at my ubuntu , i am new ubuntu user , is it ok if i follow ur page installing eclipse , if it only needed jdk 8?
Hi,
Very useful guide – thank you.
I found a bit of a gotcha…
I ran the installer from a terminal, with sudo (habit):
>sudo ./eclipse-inst
This ran the GUI installer as you’d expect – HOWEVER – the install directory was set to /root/eclipse/.
I did not notice… so proceeded with the install and launched Eclipse directly from the installer on completion. I built a full python app before I closed my session. The next time I logged in, I of course could not see my work – even with prefixing my terminal searches with sudo. ARGH!!
I needed to re-install with the same procedure and select the existing workspace (which was also in /root/ directory) before I could then access and export the project.
It is very odd that the Eclipse installer behaves in this way. Can anyone explain why, when running under sudo, the installer thought I was actually running as root? Even with elevated privileges, you cannot normally see/write inside /root/ so it was surprising that the installer could.
After copying the project out, I see that the owner is also root, so it looked as though eclipse itself was also running as root, when launched in the way I describe.
Thank you, this helped quite a lot. Any tutorial on the new Eclipse release, Photon?
I installed eclipse photon successfully but while saving nano file get this error: error writing .local/share/application/eclipse.desktop: no such file or directory
Please paste this on your terminal:
cd ~
Then paste:
nano .local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
Worked fine for me!
@Subhro Bera . It’s actually .local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop instead of .local/share/application/eclipse.desktop .
You’ve done a small typo at application .
Very help full
Please write proper steps…..
Thanks, congratulations from Brazil
I got this error:
An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
java.lang.NullPointerException
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Thanks for the guide. It wasa really helpful !
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