Ubuntu – How to install Eclipse J2EE IDE from a tarball

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I have downloaded Eclipse 3.6.1 as a tar.gz file from eclipse site. Then I extract using
cmd: tar -zxvf eclipse-jee-helios-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz

after execute this cmd I got eclipse folder in this there is eclipse file. When I double click on this eclipse file I'm getting following error:

Could not display "/media/D-DEVELOPME/eclipse/eclipse".

There is no application installed for executable files

is there any solution for it?

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As Marcos Roriz and Thomas Ward said in the comments

That happens because eclipse writes a lot of temp and plugin files and /usr/local is recommended to not allow apps to write (that is only read and execute there)

You may have better luck just saving Eclipse down onto your user directory - it does still operate from the user directory, even though you may want to place it in /usr/ or elsewhere. This is what I do to use it :/

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Create a file "eclipse.desktop" or similar, just be sure to have the .desktop extension.
Open File with a texteditor (gedit for instance)

paste following code into the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/home/path/to/eclipse/eclipse --clean -vmargs -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx1024m -Xms256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
Name=Eclipse JEE IDE
Icon=/home/path/to/eclipse/icon.xpm

Be sure to replace "/home/path/to/eclipse/" with your path to your eclipse installation folder.
Save the file
Make the file executable and copy it whereever you want an eclipse starter.

Happy Coding!

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