I am getting older version of Eclipse when I install it from terminal, which is fine for C/C++ code, but I want to use java, basically for spring and maven, so I want a newer version.
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Download and install it from http://eclipse.org.
Here is the link to all different versions of eclipse. You just have to extract and run it.
My instruction is:
- Download it
Extract it in
/opt
sudo tar -xf /path/to/file -C /opt
Create a link to its binary
sudo ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse /usr/local/bin
latest eclipse(oxygen) is not available in Ubuntu repos(for 16.04 i think).You need to download it from here :- https://www.eclipse.org/
You can extract it anywhere but I suggest you to extract it in /opt.
sudo tar -xvzf eclipse-cpp-oxygen-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz -C /opt
note:- the name eclipse-cpp-oxygen-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
can be different in your case.
then you need to make .desktop file which is shown here:- Create a .desktop file that opens and execute a command in a terminal
or
you can install eclipse by sudo apt install eclipse
and then upgrade to latest version from eclipse.
Source:- https://www.unixmen.com/install-eclipse-luna-ide-centos-7-rhel-7/
https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/linux-install-eclipse-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/