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Install Eclipse SDK 4.3.1 (Kepler) on Fedora 20/19,CentS/!"E# $.%/%.10Updated by JR on Dec 2, 2013 in CentOS,Featured, Fedora, IDEs and Tools, Linux, Most

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This is guide, howto install latestEclipse SDK 4.3.1

(Kepler) onFedora,CentOS andRed Hat (RHEL). This guide should work with Fedora

20/19/18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.10 and Red Hat

(RHEL) 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.10 and even with earlier versions.

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising anintegrated

development environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in system. It is written

primarily in Java and can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of various

plug-ins, other languages includingC,C++,COBOL,Python,Perl,PHP,Scala andRuby (including Ruby on Rails

framework).

Install Eclipse SDK 4.3.1 (Kepler) on Fedora 20/19/18,

CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/5.101. Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7

Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

2. Download Eclipse SDK 4.3.1 (Kepler)

Download suitable version from www.eclipse.org/downloads. This guide usesEclipse Classic 4.3.1 version. Another

popular versions areEclipse IDE for Java EE Developers,Eclipse IDE for Java Developers andEclipse for PHP

Developers. Select also32-bit or64-bit version depending on your system.

3. Change root usersu -

## 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 fileschmod -R +r /opt/eclipse

6. Create Eclipse executable on /usr/bin pathtouch /usr/bin/eclipse

chmod !! /usr/bin/eclipse

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  Take ownership on the whole directory: sudo chown -R

$USER:$USER

/opt/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi

## Open eclipse file with your favourite editor ## 

nano -" /usr/bin/eclipse

 ## aste followin! content to file ## 

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export #C$%&'#_()*#,/opt/eclipse,

 #C$%&'#_()*#/eclipse

7. Create Gnome desktop launcher## $reate followin! file% with our favourite editor ## 

/usr/sare/applications/eclipse.desktop ## &dd followin! content to file and save ## 

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8. Start Eclipse 4.3.1

From command line use eclipse commandeclipse

From Desktop menu Gnome 3 Eclipse 4.3.1

From Desktop menu Gnome 2 and Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)

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

TroubleshootingIf you get something like following errors:

Failed to load the JNI shared library /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so

Or

 /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object

requires: Permission denied

Then do following:ccon -t exece_exec_t ?/opt/eclipse/eclipse?

and try again.

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