Howto setup Eclipse Juno on Ubuntu 12.04.1

The Eclipse PPA is dated and to install Juno for Ubuntu 12.04.1 manually kindly follow these steps 

1. Select and download Eclipse Juno .tgz for your architecture from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

2. Open terminal windows (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type following command

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar zxvf eclipse-SDK-4.2.1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
(Do not run this command as sudo or root)

$ sudo su

# mv eclipse /usr/lib/eclipse

# chown root:root /usr/lib/eclipse

# ln -s /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse /usr/bin/eclipse

# exit

$ eclipse
this will start eclipse.

4. To add Juno update site, in Eclipse menu select 'Help' > 'Install New Software...'. Click on Add button and enter name as 'Juno' and location enter 'http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno' and click on 'Ok' to save.
 
5. To add eclipse to Unity Launcher, open file editor and create eclipse.desktop file

$ sudo vi /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Eclipse
Version=4.2.1
Comment=Eclipse Integrated Development Environment
Icon=/usr/lib/eclipse/icon.xpm
Exec=/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;

save the file and now go ahead and type eclipse in HUD and start eclipse.