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Contents 1 Eclipse Ubuntu Install 1.1 Manual Install 1.2 Plugins 1.3 Launcher 1.4 Bugs

Eclipse Ubuntu Install

• First take was to install using Ubuntu's Eclipse Package. Personally, I don't think I'd go this route. There some nice things about it, but in general it's just not really what I wanted (follow the link for reasons why).

Manual Install

• Download Eclipse
• Unzip the install file to a common location
• Rename the 'eclipse' directory to include the version number

Example:

• Unzip/untar to /usr/local/share/eclipse-3.1.1

Plugins

• Create a /usr/local/share/eclipse-3.1.1/links/local.link with the following:

path=/usr/local/lib/

Note: This allows one to put 3rd party plugins in a /usr/local/lib/eclipse/ (with plugins and features as subdirectories). Which allows us to not only share the plugins on this machine, but also it doesn't muck up the core plugins/features directories. Install plugins into:

/usr/local/lib/
               eclipse/
                       features/
                       plugins/

Launcher

Most folks will want a launcher. There's plenty of help and support on how to do this; there's pretty much two things that I do:

• Use this as my icon

• Put something like this in the "command" text field:

/usr/local/share/eclipse-3.1.1/eclipse -showlocation -data /usr/local/malcom/workspaces/workspace -vm /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun -vmargs -Xmx512M

• Then I create as many launchers as I need. Either for different workspaces or different startup options

Bugs

• Team Sync Update bug