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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
Asked: 2016-05-04 09:39:19 +0800 CST

How to get Eclipse Mars 4.5 in Ubuntu 16.04?

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I get Eclipse 3.8 in apt-get, and having a problem with .nb files with it here about How to Have Mathematica 10 Workbench in Ubuntu 16.04? I do not understand how this can possible that only 3.8 in apt-get, since 3.8 is already two years old.

16.04

3 Answers

  1. You can't get it directly from the standard Ubuntu repository, but you can add this PPA that has Eclipse 4.5 through apt:

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mmk2410/eclipse-ide-java

    Ref: https://launchpad.net/~mmk2410/+archive/ubuntu/eclipse-ide-java

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  2. The best way is using umake Ubuntu Make is a project designed to enable quick and easy setup of common needs for developers on Ubuntu.

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ubuntu-make

$ umake ide eclipse-jee

    And that's it

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  3. Best Answer

    To use third party ppa's is always a risk and cannot be used in all environments. Do to get rid of apt-get's eclipse which is old

    sudo apt-get purge eclipse*

    Get and extract the official tarball in Eclipse homepage and do

    sudo mv eclipse /usr/local/
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/eclipse
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/local/eclipse
sudo ln -s /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse /usr/local/bin/eclipse
eclipse

    Configure Java PATHs for Eclipse. So install JRE >=7 and Java PATHs correctly in your system for Workbench 3

    > Configuring your Java Run-time Environment (JRE) or Wolfram Engine installation are still both necessary on Linux. Further, the version of JRE used should be at least version 1.7

    The .nb problem is caused by false setting of Java path in your system/Mathematica.

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