Download the eclipse from below link

click here to download

tar xzf eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sudo mv eclipse /home/user_name/eclipse-jee


then cd to /home/user_name/eclipse-jee and change the ownership using belwo comamnd

sudo chown -R root:root eclipse

Sudo chmod -R +r eclipse


This is whats done in the original tutorial.

tar xzf wtp-all-in-one-sdk-1.0-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sudo mv eclipse /opt/eclipse cd /opt sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
sudo chmod +x `sudo find eclipse -type d`

Then create an eclipse executable in your path

Note: An easy way to do the following is to create a file with name ‘eclipse’ in /usr/bin and provide following commands

sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse

then provide the code to set environment variables as mentioned.

This is what is done in the original tutorial

sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
sudoedit /usr/bin/eclipse

With this contents

#!/bin/sh
#export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

Then create a gnome menu item

sudoedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

With this contents

[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

Configure

You now have a working eclipse. But run this command first to initialise the set up.

/opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean

You can know how to run java in eclipse click on the below link

click here to know how to add project