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I have purchased and downloaded My Eclipse Pro for Linux and have recently loaded up Ubuntu on a laptop as my new development machine. I haven’t done Linux in a few years and cannot determine how to install/apply the downloaded file which is /home/dj/Downloads/myeclipse-10.0-offline-installer-linux.run
I’ve looked at the manual install instructions but can’t seem to see anything about using this .RUN file. Please advise–love Eclipse and want to get skilled in Java.
Thanks,dhjohnson,
The installer is an executable. It may not be marked as executable after download, so you may need to set that permission bit, either from the file properties (from your file system browser) or by using the chmod +x command from a terminal window.
You can then double click it to run it or, in a command window, just change to the directory containing the installer and then type ./myeclipse-10.0-offline-installer-linux.run
During installation, just respond to the prompts.
Let us know if this works for you.
Thanks for the reply. I got the installer to run through command interface, but I could only get in MyEclipse the first time after the install (the prompt to run it at the end of install). I directed it to load to /user/lib/myEclipse/ which it did. But when I try again to run it from the executable at …/MyEclipse 10 I get a message about the configuration directory being not writeable. I’ll have to dig out my old Unix books to work through that. It appears it put owner as root in that whole area of the install. I think I’m close but any hints would be welcome.
Thanks,dhjohnson,
To make life easier, it would be better to let the installer install in the default location, which will be the MyEclipse folder, under your home directory (or install it in a folder of your choice under your home directory). That will lessen the complexity of dealing with permissions in other locations, when you run it as yourself, rather than as root.
Tony,
Many thanks. I was trying to do it the hard way indeed. I reran the install last evening this way and all is very good. Now to dig in and really learn Java! I’m an experienced .NET / C# / WPF / SQL developer and am looking forward to delving into Java with such an excellent development environment.
