How to Install eclipse and Add it to Desktop

1. Download the eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz from eclipse.org

2. Extract the eclipse to /opt directory

[root@www opt]# tar xvfz eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz

3. Change the ownship to root:

[root@www opt]# chown -R root:root eclipse

[root@www opt]#chmod -R +r eclipse

4.Then create an eclipse executable in your path

[root@www opt]# touch /usr/bin/eclipse

[root@www opt]# chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse

[root@www opt]# vim /usr/bin/eclipse

with this contents:

#!/bin/sh

export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

5.Then create a gnome menu item, download one of eclipse icon from eclipse website, and put it into the /op/eclipse directory as eclipse.png.

[root@www opt]# vim /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

with the following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/eclipse.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true

6. Configuration
You now have a working eclipse, run this command first to initialize the settings:
/opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean

Then from here on you can run from the menu item applications/programming/eclipse