Install Eclipse SDK on Fedora

Eclipse is an awesome IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.

It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.

It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).

Install Eclipse SDK 4.3.2 (Kepler) on Fedora 20/19/18, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/5.10

1. Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7

2. Download Eclipse SDK 4.3.2 (Kepler)

3. Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

4. Extract Eclipse package (example to /opt directory)

## x86 - 32-bit ##
tar -xvzf eclipse-standard-kepler-R-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt
 
## x86_64 - 64-bit ##
tar -xvzf eclipse-standard-kepler-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz -C /opt

5. Add read permissions to all files

chmod -R +r /opt/eclipse

6. Create Eclipse executable on /usr/bin path

touch /usr/bin/eclipse
chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
 
## Open eclipse file with your favourite editor ##
nano -w /usr/bin/eclipse
 
## Paste following content to file ##
#!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"
 
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

7. Create Gnome desktop launcher

## Create following file, with our favourite editor ##
/usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
 
## Add following content to file and save ##
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse SDK 4.3.2
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true

8. Start Eclipse 4.3.2

eclipse

9. Eclipse 4.3 screenshot, running on Fedora 19 64-bit

Troubleshooting

If you get something like following errors:

chcon -t execmem_exec_t '/opt/eclipse/eclipse'