While I previously blogged about installing Netbeans 8, some of my students would prefer to use the Eclipse IDE. This post shows how to install and configure Eclipse IDE, include the mysql-connector-java.jar, and write Java to access the MySQL.
You can download Eclipse IDE and then open it in
Fedora’s Archive Manager. You can use the Archive
Manager to Extract the Eclipse IDE to a directory
of your choice. I opted to extract it into my
student user’s home directory, which is
/home/student.
After extracting the Eclipse IDE, you can check the
contents of the eclipse directory with the following
command:
ls -al eclipse |
You should see the following:
| … |