Make Eclipse visible to system

Question

I have installed Eclipse with standard installer in folder:

~/eclipse/cpp-oxygen/eclipse

Uniti don't see eclipse and terminals don't see Eclipse. If I type eclipse command with full path - it runs fine.

I suppose I need to set PATH environment variable for this reason. But where is the best way to do that? I found several places in Ubuntu where I can do that:

.bashrc
/etc/bash.bashrc
.bash_profile
.profile
/etc/profile.d
/etc/environment 

Which is right place?

How to make Unity see Eclipse when I push start button?

UPD

I have created symbolic link to eclipse binary:

 sudo ln ~/eclipse/cpp-oxygen/eclipse/eclipse eclipse

Now I have message during Eclipse start:

The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.

Answer 1

To add it to your path you can simply create a link in /usr/bin

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s /home/vico/eclipse/cpp-oxygen/eclipse eclipse

To add it to the dash you need a .desktop file for eclipse:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Paste this content to the file and edit Exec and Icon values:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse Integrated Development Environment
Icon=** probably/home/vico/eclipse/cpp-oxygen/eclipse/icon.xpm **
Exec= ** probably/home/vico/eclipse/eclipse **
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;Java;
StartupWMClass=Eclipse