So, once you download Eclipse,
for instance, you'll gonna get a,
compressed archive.
And you can right click it and extract it and it's gonna result
in a directory like this called Eclipse installer.
So, just double click that and head into that directory.
And once in that directory, right click and click open in terminal
and now you need to make sure that Java
is installed.
So,
I have had limited success with open JDK-8
with Eclipse
So, I just installed open JDK-7
and see how that works.
So, just to recap,
to install open JDK, type sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre or
8
for the version number.
To confirm that you've got Java already installed,
you just type Java-version
and it should tell you what type of
Java you've got installed.
Now, to run the installer, we're going to target the current directory
and run Eclipse-inst.
And it's going to launch the Eclipse installer.
Now, once the installer comes up,
We'll gonna see that we have a list of IDEs that we can install.
and I downloaded the complete package, so it give me every possible option here.
I'm just going to install the Eclipse IDE for Java.
Leave it here.
and hit Install.
It's going to install
Eclipse to our home directory.
The Eclipse directory is set up and then any IDEs that you install
are
put into that directory.
So, it's asking: "Do I trust these certificates?"
and I'm going to select all of it, Okay? Because
I'm confident that
this is the actual application.
I think it is.
Now, when it's done. It's going to present you with a launch button.
So, let's just click that and dive into Eclipse.
And have a quck look around.
Now, I don't use Eclipse for development,
but if you do, and this is something that you use on Windows or OSX
and you feel comfortable using Eclipse, then you'll gonna probably
want to use this on Linux.
It's cross platform, so everything should be the same.
So, this is Eclipse, it's the
main window here.
I'm going to create a new Java project.
And I'm just going to call it Untitled.
Not really feeling too creative at this point.
Project layout, Ok.
This all looks good
I'm gonna hit Next,
and Finish.
Alright.
On the left hand side here, you have a project explorer
which is basically just
a list of projects
used in your Eclipse work space
and this is my Java project that I just created.
These files open but are from other
projects like using Eclipse to try it out.
And so you can just, you know, get started right away with Eclipse.