The Eclipse developers provide two ways to install Eclipse. $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdk It’s available right in the default Ubuntu repositories. # apt-get -t jessie-backports install openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdkįor users of Ubuntu 16.04, getting Java 8 installed is very easy. # apt-get updateĪfter apt finishes updating, you can install the packages from jessie-backports. # Backports repositoryįeel free to add contrib and non-free if you’d like too. Open up /etc/apt/sources.list in your favorite text editor as root and add the following line. So, the first step in getting Java 8 installed is to enable that repository. Java 8 was not made available to Debian users when Jessie was first launched, but it is available through the jessie-backports repository. The good news is Java 8 is available for both Ubuntu and Debian. Since Eclipse is primarily a Java IDE(You can use it with other languages), you’re probably going to want to install Java 8 on your system to be able to develop applications. You just have to go about getting it a different way, and the Eclipse developers have a great solution for this.

In fact, the version shipping with Ubuntu 16.04 was released in 2012 and was discontinued quite some time ago.ĭespite the fact that both Ubuntu and Debian don’t package and ship new versions of it anymore, Eclipse is still easily available to users of both distributions. Eclipse is a powerful and feature-rich IDE for Java developers, but the versions packaged with Debian and Ubuntu lag far behind the latest releases.

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