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I tried installing eclipse directly from the repo using apt-get, but it gave a outdated version -- Indigo 3.8, which does not support several important plug-ins.

So I started using Eclipse Kepler Without installation I downloaded Eclipse (.tar.gz file) and extracted it and ran it using the ./eclipse command which was running successfully, but it does not support plug-ins when running the eclipse executable(eclipse x-ecutable) This is from the downloaded package of eclipse Kepler with bash.

Which didn’t work because I cannot get pyDev and Java EE plug-in, so I tried to install it by following the method here:

Installing Eclipse Kepler

This created a broken Desktop icon and I cannot find any installation in Dash

I am currently running Ubuntu 14.04. Is there any way to manually install a plug-in to the eclipse package which I am running manually if there is no installation solution?

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There is only one way out to this problem and that is to download it manually and install the kepler version manually by following steps

  1. go to the downloaded package directory and unpack package

    cd {directory where your browser downloaded the package to} tar -zxvf eclipse-SDK-3.4.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz && mv eclipse /opt

  2. make scirpt

    nano /bin/eclipse

    now enter following to the scirpt

    export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"

    export ECLIPSE_HOME="$HOME/opt/eclipse"

    `$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

  3. Execute the script

    chmod +x /bin/eclipse

This will add entry to the terminal so you can access eclipse by typing eclipse directly on terminal, if you want to add any new plugin you have to do it manually for more info on manuall installation of plugin see this link

for more info see this link

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