Help installing Eclipse 4.3.2 on Linux Mint 17
 

I have the tar.gz file from Eclipse.org. It is the right version (64-bit). How do I install it? I went to put it into the /opt folder and tried to run eclipse. It could not locate it's shared folder. Any help? I really don't want to use the old 3.8 via software manager.

Thanks in advance ;)

1. Open a terminal
2. Untar the tar.gz file using the following command
3. Move the resulting folder to /opt (remember this is done as root or using sudo)
jdk

Ok... After it's there, I cannot access it. I need to be in root to run the application. I went in, in root, and changed the permissions for the whole eclipse folder. The settings that I chose didn't save to everything even though I clicked save permissions to containing folders and files. I also manually changed the permissions for the executable itself. When I tried to run it, it said that it couldn't find its shared folder thing????

Isn't eclipse in the software center?

Yes, but it is the old version.

Normally this should not be the case. You need to be root to move the extracted folder to opt but you shouldn't need to be root to run the program. If you do need to be root that was the way Eclipse was designed. For example I have things like calibre and skype in /opt which I can run as an ordinary user with no problems. I don't know what Eclipse does but if you have to be root to run it then that's how it was designed and presumably the developers had good reason for doing so.
jdk