

By default, Eclipse IDE comes with all the tools needed to develop Java projects but you can install more extensions to develop in other languages. All of them are basically the same Eclipse with several extensions pre-installed to do specific tasks. NOTE At the Eclipse download page you can see many versions of Eclipse IDE. To execute the Eclipse IDE, you can do a double click on the executable file or run it from terminal.Do a right click on the file then: properties → permissions and check Allow executing file as a program.Open the Eclipse folder an find an executable file called eclipse.For example: the Downloads folder or the Desktop folder. Unpack the downloaded file to any location that you want.

Download Eclipse Classic 32 or 64 bits according to your current OS version.To get a copy of Eclipse IDE, follow these steps: Just type openjdk java 6 and install the package. You can also install Java from your software center. To install Java runtime on your Linux box, open a terminal and type following command and wait until the installation finishes:

NOTE For manual download and installation, you must have Java runtime previously installed or Eclipse IDE will not run.
