Setup Eclipse Binary for Eclipse Official Website in Fedora 20

Following is a sample note to setup eclipse binary from Official Eclipse Website instead of using yum.

I chose to go down this path since yum is several revisions behind the official version.

# Install jdk development if not already, to prevent some strange behavior when compiling code
sudo yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64

# Download the eclipse from official site. (http://www.eclipse.org/)
wget http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/kepler/SR1/eclipse-jee-kepler-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz eclipse.tar.gz

# Unpackage it
mkdir -p eclipse
cd eclipse
tar -xvf ../eclipse.tar.gz

# Create eclipse.desktop file
cat > ~/eclipse.desktop <<"EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse IDE
Exec=/opt/eclipse/eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
EOF

# Make it all permission
chmod a+wrx eclipse.desktop

cd ..

# Copy the binary to opt
sudo mv eclipse /opt/eclipse

# Make the desktop symbolic link
sudo ln /opt/eclipse/eclipse.desktop /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

One should be able to see it in Search Menu

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Danil