Install eclipse on centos

[reuven486]

Hi there,
I'm trying to install Eclipse (latest version) on centOS 5.2-3 (latest version) with JAVA and PHP support and having huge problems doing this (especially the JAVA and PHP support).

Is there any tutorial describing this procedure step by step ("for dummies") ?

Thanks in advance.
Reuven

[b2bwild]

Either you can install eclipse from YUM repositories.
or by dowloading Tar ball from Website.
Here is guide on that --> Install and use Eclipse for Linux on POWER

[Rubberman]

The newer versions of Eclipse require a version of Java that is newer than the default one installed on the CentOS system. You will have to update your Java installation first, getting the package from the sun.java web site. I don't know about the PHP part since I pretty much ignore PHP as a rule. In any case, java gets installed into /usr/java/... where ... is the actual java package installed, such as jdk1.6.0_07 or jre1.6.0_11. You can have as many versions as you want. Then you will see a couple of links, one called default and the other latest. The link "latest" will point to the latest java package installed. The link "current" will point to the current java package being used by default. You will notice that /usr/bin/java is pointing to /usr/java/default/bin/java, so to change which java runtime you are using, you can simply relink /usr/java/default to the version you need. There are also other links in /usr/bin that point to /usr/java/default, such as /usr/bin/jar, /usr/bin/javac, /usr/bin/javadoc, etc. Assuming these are already set up properly, just leave them alone.

[b2bwild]

eclipse uses jdk as default.
its specially recommended to install using package manager.