Eclipse for PHP Quick Start on Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install and Getting-Started with the Latest Eclipse 2023-12 R IDE for PHP Developers on Linux Mint 18 Sarah LTS i386/amd64 GNU Mate/Cinnamon/Xfce/KDE Desktop.
The Eclipse for PHP Developers IDE Include the Development components necessary to develop PHP-based Web Applications and facilitates extensibility.
Eclipse for PHP Developers IDE Features List:
- Syntax Hightlighting
- Content Assist
- Code Formatter
- Quick Outline
- Code Templates
- Code Navigation

Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)Download Latest Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers
Double-Click on Archive and Extract Eclipse into /tmp.
Or from Command Line:tar xvzf eclipse*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
Relocating Eclipse
sudo su
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/eclipse && mv /tmp/eclipse /opt/
Starting Eclipse from Terminal.
Making a Symlink:
ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse /usr/local/bin/eclipse
To Exit from the SuperUser Session:
exit
After you can Start Eclipse from Terminal simply with:
eclipse
Create an Eclipse Launcher for Easy-Starting
Getting-Started with Eclipse for PHP Developers