How to install Eclipse Kepler

Overview

Here we download and install Eclipse Kepler onto your machine. Eclipse is a popular IDE for Java developers. (IDEs are software tools that help you edit your source code and compile your projects.) Kepler is a recent version of Eclipse that we'll use in this ladder.

Process

1. Download Eclipse Kepler

Go to http://www.eclipse.org/kepler/ and click on Downloads.

Click on Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.

On the top-right under Download Links, choose your computer's platform.

32 or 64-bit? We strongly encourage you to use the 64-bit version of Eclipse.

Click the green download button.

2. Extract Eclipse

When your download completes, you will have an archive file with the name of something like eclipse-java-kepler-SR2-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz.

If you're on a...	Do this to extract the archive
Mac	Double click on the archive file
Windows	Right click on the archive file and click "Extract"
Linux	Use the `tar zxf filename` command

3. Open Eclipse

You'll find a new folder called eclipse. Open it, and you will find the Eclipse application.