Everyone rants that Ubuntu didn’t upgrade Eclipse in a long time. Still Release 3.2 is deployed, which is quite ancient in Today’s terms. I have also struggled with this issue for a while, till I found an answer (sorry, didn’t bookmark the source).
- Download the Linux 64 version from Ecplise.org – That’s quite obvious
- Check which Java application is the default- follow from /usr/bin/java to the /usr/lib/jvm directory
- From a terminal, in the eclipse directory perform the following:
export JAVA_HOME=’desired /usr/lib/jvm/’ directory’
./eclipse