Install Eclipse on Linux

How to install latest eclipse (Oxygen.2) in jessie container

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-jessie-backports.list

deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main

sudo apt-get update

Install new Java version

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install openjdk-8-jdk

Remove old Java version

sudo apt-get remove openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless --purge

Download Eclipse package from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/ Extract it to your home

TROUBLESHOOTING

If display cannot be opened, do this:

sudo apt-get remove xorg --purge
sudo apt install xorg
sudo reboot

Install eclipse

cd eclipse-installer
./eclipse-inst