CSCE 145 Fall 2008

Installing Eclipse on Your Own PC

1. Make sure that you have already installed Java on your machine. If you have not, do that first and then return to these instructions to install eclipse.

2. Using your browser go to the page http://www.eclipse.org/downloads.

3. Click on “Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (85 MB).” If you have a linux or MacOS X platform, then click on the small link on the right side for that.

4. Choose either “open” or “save.” If you choose the latter, choose a place to Save the file and you should then get a message, “Now downloading: eclipse-java-ganymede-win32.zip” (for Windows). The size is 85MB, so it will take a long time to download.

1. Using WinZip, 7-zip, or a similar program that can uncompress files, extract the files to the directory c:\eclipse\
The directory c:\eclipse\ will look like:

2. The executable file is already compiled and ready for use. Its file name is eclipse.exe. If you invoke the execution of that file by double-clicking on it, you will asked to select a workspace, which is where you would like to store the programs you will be writing (I chose C:\Huhns\CSCE145\Code). You will then get a welcome screen. On that screen click on the icon for “Go To The Workbench” and you will see:

You are ready to begin creating a Java program.