Eclipse setup on RHEL/CentOS server

cent os Eclipse java RHEL Eclipse setup on RHEL/CentOS server

1. Download Eclipse package from Eclipse site
2. Extract and move extracted directory to /opt
3. Make a softlink like below

ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse /usr/bin/eclipse

4. Creating Gnome launcher for eclipse

vim /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Add below

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse 4.5.2
Comment=Eclipse Mars
Exec=/usr/bin/eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Categories=Application;Development;Java;IDE
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=0