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Eclipse is an open-source (under the Eclipse Public License, or EPL) powerful IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ user interface and is written in Java. As it is written in Java it is cross-platform and capable of running on Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is maintained and used by a large community of volunteers and companies.

Installation

Eclipse

Eclipse Packages offers their own installers and tarballs for different editions.

Flathub

The Java IDE can also be installed as a Flatpak package from Flathub:

flatpak install org.eclipse.Java

You may also install it using Gnome Software or KDE Discover; look for Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.

Troubleshooting

See Eclipse on Flathub for bug reports and pull requests on the Flatpak manifest.

Read Only Eclipse.ini

You can reference a custom eclipse.ini with

flatpak run org.eclipse.Java --launcher.ini /home/user/custom/eclipse.ini

It is also possible to start Eclipse with command line parameters:

flatpak run org.eclipse.Java -vmargs -Xmx4g -Dmy.sysprop=some_value

No Splashscreen Image

As the splash is stored as legacy BMP try

yum install gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra

to fix it when using an Eclipse supplied installer.

Contact

Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on Libera. The Eclipse Linux Tools upstream project is also responsible for packaging across distributions.

Fedora Java Mailing list
Eclipse foundation (upstream)
Eclipse Foundation Chat Community (Matrix based)
Planet Eclipse (Blogs)

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-[http://www.eclipse.org '''Eclipse'''] is an open-source (under the Eclipse Public License, or EPL) powerful [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ user interface and is written in Java. As it is written in Java it is cross-platform and capable of running on Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is maintained and used by a large community of volunteers and companies.
+[https://www.eclipse.org/ide '''Eclipse'''] is an open-source (under the Eclipse Public License, or EPL) powerful [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ user interface and is written in Java. As it is written in Java it is cross-platform and capable of running on Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is maintained and used by a large community of volunteers and companies.
-It is shipped in Fedora (>= 4). Packaging guidelines for Eclipse plugins can be found here: [[Packaging/EclipsePlugins]].
+== Installation ==
+=== Eclipse ===
+[https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ Eclipse Packages] offers their own installers and tarballs for different editions.
-== Installation ==
+=== Flathub ===
-It can be installed via merely running:
+The Java IDE can also be installed as a Flatpak package from [https://flathub.org/apps/org.eclipse.Java Flathub]:
 <pre>
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 </pre>
-You may also install it using Gnome Software or KDE Discover; look for Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.
+You may also install it using Gnome Software or KDE Discover; look for ''Eclipse IDE for Java Developers''.
-== Fedora Eclipse ==
+== Troubleshooting ==
-Fedora Eclipse is a community project encompassing everything Eclipse-related in Fedora. We ship the Eclipse SDK along with some plugins (see below).
-Would you like to help?
-Talk to us on IRC or the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel/ java-devel mailing list].  Package a plugin for Fedora!
-== Contact ==
 See [https://github.com/flathub/org.eclipse.Java Eclipse on Flathub] for bug reports and pull requests on the Flatpak manifest.
-Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on [http://freenode.net Freenode] .  There are also people on #classpath also on Freenode. Community around the [http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/ Eclipse Linux Tools] project is emerging now and developers are hanging out on #eclipse-linux on Freenode.
+=== Read Only Eclipse.ini ===
+You can reference a custom <code>eclipse.ini</code> with
+<pre>flatpak run org.eclipse.Java --launcher.ini /home/user/custom/eclipse.ini</pre>
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list/ Fedora Java Mailing list]
+It is also possible to start Eclipse with command line parameters:
+<pre>flatpak run org.eclipse.Java -vmargs -Xmx4g -Dmy.sysprop=some_value</pre>
-[http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse (upstream)]
+=== No Splashscreen Image ===
+As the splash is stored as legacy BMP try
+<pre>yum install gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra</pre>
+to fix it when using an Eclipse supplied installer.
-[http://planet.eclipse.org Planet Eclipse]
+== Contact ==
+Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on [ircs://irc.libera.chat#fedora-java #fedora-java] on [http://libera.chat Libera]. The [https://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/ Eclipse Linux Tools] upstream project is also responsible for packaging across distributions.
-== Troubleshooting ==
+* [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/java-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Java Mailing list]
-=== No Splashscreen Image ===
+* [https://www.eclipse.org Eclipse foundation] (upstream)
-As the splash is stored as legacy BMP try
+* [https://chat.eclipse.org/ Eclipse Foundation Chat Community] (Matrix based)
-<pre>sudo yum install gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra</pre>
+* [https://planet.eclipse.org Planet Eclipse] (Blogs)
-to fix it.
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 [[Category:Integrated development environments]]

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