How to install Oracle JDK and Eclipse IDE? Please help...

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Hi,

I’m new to OpenSuSE. I’m using 12.1 GNOME on my Dell laptop. Could someone please help me with installing Oracle JDK and Eclipse IDE?

Regards.
Sri

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Hi,

I use Eclipse in OpenSuse since the earlier version of it.
It is very very simple to do that.

Install Java:

To install on your machine a Java JVM and JDK , does not need to be the Oracle one, just go to Yast and Software Management and search for Java.
Choose to install the Open JDK version and you are good to go.

For Eclipse:

Simply download from eclipse.org home page the Eclipse version you want to use 32 or 64 bit Linux version of your choice.
Save the tar.gz file anywhere on your home folder.
Open it by double clicking with your file manager, like Dolphin and then simply extract all the files and folders inside into your Home dir.
Usually it will be :
/home/<your_user_name>/eclipse.
After that simply make an Application launcher or link or whatever you would like to the directory were you extracted Eclipse (it shoudl usually be /home/<your_username>/eclipse/).

To start Eclipse the executable is a file inside that dir named … eclipse.
Simple.

Regards.