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I have installed Eclipse Mars 1 which I would like to use, it could be run and located in /home/user/Application/eclipse

When I lock it to the launcher, close eclipse and launch it again, it runs a Eclipse 3.8 which I don't recall.

I believe that Eclipse 3.8 is found under /home/user/.eclipse

I go to /usr/share/applications, there is a Eclipse (.desktop). I open it with gedit, it has

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
... ...
Exec=eclipse
Terminal=false
... ...

So my question is, I don't need this Eclipse 3.8 and I want to launch Mars 1 from launcher, how do I do that?

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Maybe you have to remove an eclipse version installed via apt-get.

sudo apt-get remove eclipse

You can also see which eclipse is called by the command eclipse with:

which eclipse

in a terminal.

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  • Are you sure it won't removenot only the oldest eclipse version but also the latest eclipse version installed? Dec 20, 2016 at 8:08
  • When I do this, it returns: Package 'eclipse' is not installed, so not removed, but the program is still present in /usr/lib/ and /usr/bin. Any ideas? Mar 19, 2017 at 14:56

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