1) download eclipse from, http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/te chnology/epp/downloads/release/helios/SR1/eclipse-java-helios-SR1-linux-gtk.tar. gz 2) extract it in the Downloads folder, using following command.

type this comman d in GNOME terminal cd Downloads tar xzf eclipse-java-helios-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz 3) move extracted eclipse folder to root/opt/ sudo mv eclipse /opt/ 4) Create an eclipse executable in your path. sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse sudoedit /usr/bin/eclipse with executable contents as follows #!/bin/sh #export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/" export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse" $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $* 5) create a gnome menu item in the applications/programming sudoedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop with contents as follows [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse Comment=Eclipse IDE Exec=eclipse Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=GNOME;Application;Development; StartupNotify=true 6) finally initialize eclipse /opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean