OK I've downloaded Eclipse and unzipped the file.

Now I remember (partly) what I did to run it on Yoper.
It is something to do with changing Java settings so that it doesn't lock files.
I really wish I had made a note what exactly I did before

But I will try and figure out and let you know ..

Wahey !!!
Got it

First do this:

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/jdk/jre/bin (to be made permanent in /etc/profile)

Then do this:

./eclipse -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none

That at the directory eclipse

Well I got a splash screen and its asking me for other stuff.
Hope it doesn't crash now - but so far .. so good

Its working
For some reason don't like the fonts - missing anti-alias?

Ok michux done my part.
Now you teach me some stuff.

Like how to get the various plugins working in Eclipse.
I want to learn how to develop in other languages (not Java though)
using Eclipse

/me is happy

Thanks. I'll see if it works for me when I get home from work (here at work I'm on debian).

There is a site Eclipse Plugins you can visit.
There is a number of non-free elicpse plugins which are generally pretty good. There are
lots of free plugins that are... let's say random quality.

I personally only use the JBoss-IDE plugin - a very good plugin that helps developing
Java apps under JBoss (deploying, debugging, configuration files editing, etc) and also
contains simple JSP files syntax highlighting (no prompts though).
I also used Lomboz plugin for JSP files, but I found it extremely resource-consuming so
I dropped it.

Installing plugins is not vert intuitive - well I said it just like all in eclipse was intuitive except that
Anyway, you need to click:
Help (sic!) -> Software Updates -> Find and Install
And then, add a remote URL and enter the address that the plugin is located at. From there it will be rather simple.
Well it's not the most fortunate way to install plugins, but there's no central eclipse plugins repository, so
apt-getting it (or similar action) is impossible at the moment.

If you don't want to waste time clicking, just download a plugin you need and copy the files
to /plugins and /feautres subdirectories of eclipse install folder and restart eclipse.

the only trouble i am having with Eclipse
very cosmetic though
is the non-antialiased font
never seen that before

maybe its a Yoper KDE thing? I will test it on Gnome.