1) install JVM, there's about a million examples on this site alone of how to do this
2) unpack eclipse:
Code:
me@puter:/usr/local$ unzip ~/eclipse.zip
3) create a shell script to run it by putting this in /usr/bin/eclipse:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin;
/usr/local/eclipse/eclipse
4) make it executable
chmod +x /usr/bin/eclipse
now run it and eclipse should start
HTH
B.