Hello guys.... It was around an year and half back.... I did some research on this then... I am providing all info with me... This is the link to my Blog Post.. http://bijayrungta.com/getting-eclipse-to-work-on-ubuntu The whole content Copy-Pasted below.... ============================================================= Getting Eclipse to Work on Ubuntu by bijayrungta on Nov.05, 2007, under Development, LAMP, PDT, eclipse Getting Eclipse to wiork on Ubuntu for all my Development Work proved to be very tricky. There are issues related to permission compatibility and what not. Here is what worked for me. After installing and uninstalling Eclipse and deleting the Workspace for quite a few times, I first removed all the Packages with the search term eclipse from the Synaptic Package Manager (Top Bar -> System Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager) Then I used the steps as explained in the iteratively documented tutorial at Ubuntuforum in the following url http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378 After doing this, the first time I run the Editor from the terminal with the following command rungss@rungss-ubuntu: eclipse -clean then I included the following Update sites name=”Subclipse Subversion Plugin” url=”http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x“ name=”The Eclipse 3.3 Project Updates” url=”http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.3“ name=”Europa Discovery Site” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/releases/europa“ name=”PDT Updates” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/“ name=”Web Tools Platform (WTP) Updates” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates“ By default there were two sites name=”The Eclipse Project Updates” url=”http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.2“ name=”Callisto Discovery Site” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/callisto/releases“ Here is the link of Update Site Bookmarks which you can import through the Eclipse Update manager. http://bijay.rungta.googlepages.com/ubuntu-lamp-eclipse-update-sites-boo.xml Note: be careful with the ending /(slash) for the site urls enter them as is in the above list. Its strange that for some sites the end “/” is valid while not for others. Then I searched for Updates.. Upon the listing of all available features I selected a few based on my preferences. The following is the list of them * Subclipse Plugin from Subclipse Update site * PDT features and PDT SDK features from the PDT Update Site * Eclipse 3.3 from the Eclipse 3.3 Project Update Site.(I like the view in 3.3 where you can minimize all panels and view any one of them as you wish irrespective of the Perspective you are viewing the Editor) * WTP from Europa Site and some other CVS related features. While selecting these features I clicked on the Select Required button when I saw any error for incompatibility in selected features. Next I signed the Agreements and when Saving them I selected the folder “/usr/local/lib/eclipse” to install features where it was in any other Directory than the base installation location (Basically wherever it permitted to do so.) This is done so that other users can also use them. Advise taken from the article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseWebTools That is all This seems to work for me. Here are the various webpages that I reviewed many a times during the whole process http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseWebTools https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseIDE https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/68053 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/68053 http://flurdy.com/docs/eclipse/install.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3177266 http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/PNphpBB2-printview-t-2556-start-0.html http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.3.1.1.html http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-436316.html PS: The strategy to install plugins in the directory /usr/local/lib/eclipse again had some problems. Was getting an error message saying conflict entries.. I guess what happened is some of the files(a part of some plugin was exisitng in both the directory usr/lib/eclipse and usr/local/lib/eclipse) or may be because i installed Eclipse 3.3 on Eclipse 3.2 I have started the Eclipse 3.3 updation right now and wil realize if thats what the problem was in some time. Will update the post. So I had to uninstall the Eclipse again and then I reinstalled. But to my Surprise I got the same error again(Conflict..) I later realized that this was because when I installed it after uninstalling it… It was basically installed from the cache on the Local Computer.. So I run the following command to first clear the cache apt-get clean Thanks to teh article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGetHowto And then I reinstalled eclipse with the following the steps at the Page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378 Lets see how it goes now… :Development, eclipse, LAMP, PDT, Subclipse, Tutorial, Ubuntu, WST Edit this entry? 3 comments to “Getting Eclipse to Work on Ubuntu” 1. Jeffrey04 January 27th, 2008 on 11:48 am edit but isn’t the eclipse package in repository version 3.2?? or after applying updates from the mentioned update sites the eclipse can be upgraded to 3.3? 2. Bijay Rungta February 4th, 2008 on 9:47 pm edit @Jeffry04 Thanks for the visit. Yes It can be upgraded 3. Jeffrey04 February 18th, 2008 on 12:02 pm edit if i am not mistaken, you can actually run eclipse as root to install the upgrades so that other users can use the extra stuff installed =============================== == Till Here====================== =============================== But, later I used them without Problem.... I On 4/17/09, Daniel Hahler