How to Install Eclipse IDE in CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

In this tutorial, we’ll cover the installation process of the latest edition of Eclipse IDE 2020‑06 in CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora-based Linux distributions.

Eclipse is a free integrated development environment IDE used by programmers world-wide to write and develop Java applications mostly. However, Eclipse IDE can support a large variety of compilers and programming languages via installed plugins that extend its functionality.

The latest release of Eclipse IDE 2020‑06 doesn’t come with pre-build binary packages specific for RHEL or CentOS-based Linux distributions. Instead, you can install Eclipse IDE in CentOS, Fedora or other Red Hat Linux based distributions via tarball installer file.

Requirements:

1. A Desktop machine with a minimum of 2GB of RAM.
2. Java 9 or higher version installed in Red Hat Linux based distributions.

Install Eclipse IDE in CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

A Java 9 or higher version is required to install Eclipse IDE and the simplest way to install Oracle Java JDK from the default repositories.

# yum install java-11-openjdk-devel
# java -version

Next, open a browser, navigate to Eclipse’s official download page and download the latest version of the tar package specific for your installed Linux distribution architecture.

Alternatively, you can also download the Eclipse IDE installer file in your system via wget utility, by issuing the below command.

# wget http://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/eclipse/oomph/epp/2020-06/R/eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz

After the download completes, navigate to the directory where the archive package has been downloaded and issue the below commands to start installing Eclipse IDE.

# tar -xvf eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz 
# cd eclipse-installer/
# sudo ./eclipse-inst

The Eclipse Installer lists the IDE’s available to Eclipse users. You can choose and click on the IDE package you want to install.

Next, choose the folder where you want Eclipse to be installed.

Once the installation is finished you can now launch Eclipse.

Install Eclipse IDE via Snap on Fedora

Snap is a software package management that is used to install third-party packages on the Fedora Linux distribution, you can use snap to install Eclipse IDE on Fedora using the following commands.

$ sudo dnf install snapd
$ sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
$ snap search eclipse
$ sudo snap install --classic eclipse

Congratulations! You’ve successfully installed the latest version of Eclipse IDE in your Red Hat Linux based system.