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I have downloaded Eclipse Indigo 3.7.1 . I used to try to install it into Ubuntu 11.10 as install on Ubuntu 11.04 but it doesn't work. Please anyone tell me how to install it into Ubuntu 11.10.

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  1. Download one of the available Eclipse bundles from the official site. I got eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

  2. Extract it

    tar xzf eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

    Or just be lazy and Right Click > Extract Here

  3. Move to /opt/ folder

    mv eclipse /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
sudo chmod -R +r eclipse

  4. Create an eclipse executable in your path

    sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo nano /usr/bin/eclipse

    copy this into nano

    #!/bin/sh
#export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

    save the file (^O = Ctrl+o) and exit nano (^X = Ctrl+x)

  5. Create a gnome menu item

    sudo nano /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

    copy this into nano

    [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

    save and exit nano

  6. Launch Eclipse for the first time

    /opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean &
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After executing command: /opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean & this line is printed in terminal /usr/bin/eclipse: 5: /opt/eclipse/eclipse: not found please respond to it. – nikhil Feb 21 at 11:19
because your first instruction did not work properly you should put "sudo " befor that to access /usr/ from root I mean that write this line instead of first line sudo mv eclipse /opt/ then just type the last line again : /opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean & I hope this will work :D – Afshin Feb 24 at 15:47
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I don't think eclipse needs 'install', just extract(unpack) it and everything is ok.

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Indeed - the first answer here lists an extended method to totally integrate it. Just extracting it and running the eclipse executable works too :) – Jeroen Baert Feb 24 at 16:11
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