Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Go to www.eclipse.org, download the Linux/GTK2 bundle, unzip the distribution file using "unzip", cd into the just-created "eclipse" directory and run "./eclipse". That's it.
Well actually, I'm pretty sure you'll also need a JDK and a JAVA_HOME to find it with. My ~/.bash_profile is supplied with
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_06
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
as well as defining ANT_HOME and its path, since I have a rule that all my projects be command-line buildable whether there's an
IDE available or not.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.