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The above just creates a directory called Programs in your Home and moves the 'eclipse' folder and its contents to this new location.

Now we need to make it convenient to execute Eclipse.

$ su
$ touch /usr/bin/eclipse
$ chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
$ vi /usr/bin/eclipse

We need to establish what our HOME directory is by entering the following into the Terminal:

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The value returned back in my case is "/home/developer".  In your case it would be "home/<username>". In the next step, ECLIPSE_HOME will be "HOME/Programs/eclipse".

Now we need to make it convenient to execute Eclipse.

$ su
$ touch /usr/bin/eclipse
$ chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
$ vi /usr/bin/eclipse

Enter the following into the file:

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