Installing the Latest Eclipse in Ubuntu

install-eclipse.sh

icon_url="http://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/maceclipse4.zip"

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

eclipse_desktop="[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true"

echo "Enter the URL for the Eclipse gzipped tarball:"
read eclipse_url

echo "Installing dependencies..."
sudo apt-get install imagemagick openjdk-6-jre

echo "Downloading Eclipse..."
wget -O eclipse.tar.gz "$eclipse_url"

echo "Downloading improved icon..."
wget -O icon.zip "$icon_url"

tar xvf eclipse.tar.gz
unzip icon.zip MacEclipse4/EclipseLogo512.png
convert MacEclipse4/EclipseLogo512.png eclipse/icon.xpm
sudo mv eclipse /opt/eclipse
sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
echo -e "$eclipse_bin" | sudo tee /usr/bin/eclipse
echo -e "$eclipse_desktop" | sudo tee /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

instructions.rst

Installing the Latest Eclipse in Ubuntu

Here's a short shell script to quickly install the latest Eclipse in Ubuntu, since the one in the repositories is about two years old. As a bonus, it also replaces the ugly Eclipse icon with a nicer one by Shaun Smith. Based on these instructions.

• Copy the URL to install-eclipse.sh using the raw link to the top right of that file's listing.
• Run the script, like wget https://gist.github.com/raw/.../install-eclipse.sh -O- | sudo bash
• When prompted, find the Eclipse Linux gzipped tarball you want to install from the Eclipse website.
• The script will install OpenJDK [1], download Eclipse, patch the icon so it looks less ugly, and put all of the right files in the right places.

[1]	In my experience, Eclipse (particularly CDT) has been more stable under OpenJDK than the Sun JRE, even though Eclipse recommends it.