I just bought my first Ultra 20 (Solaris 10) and I would like to know the step by step directions to launch eclipse please. I have unzipped the eclipse folder in my temp directory I am having really hard time launching eclipse from my desktop.

I am not sure whether there is any difference with the SPARC Solaris version. For x86 + Linux, on unzipping the distribution, there is already an "eclipse" executable that on execute will launch Eclipse automatically.

You may need to have all the Java run time files in order to run Eclipse.

I do have "eclipse" executeable but I am not sure what arguments to pass it. It is keep telling me too many arguments if I pass anything beside the following "./eclipse -vm /usr/java/bin/java" and it is not showing me anything on the console. Do I need to use xterm? When I run the above command it returns after few second with nothing.

I have the binary "Eclipse". I need to know what argument to pass this executable. Also, do I need to run xterm command before I execute this binary?

Usually you do not have to append any parameters to the "eclipse" command. At least with Eclipse 3.1, if you do not have any parameters passed in, a dialog box will appear asking you where you would like your workspace created. In the past you need that parameter or the default, which is the current directory, will always be used.

Of course, set JAVA_HOME to your java base directory should help with finding the JVM. Otherwise, I don't think you need any more parameters (there are some parameters which control the maximum RAM the JVM runs on, for instance, but if they are absent you should still be able to run eclipse.)

Thank you all for helping me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong but this thing is stil not running. This is really frustrating me.

$ pwd
/home/kansari/eclipse
$ ls -al
total 296
drwxr-xr-x 6 kansari adm 512 May 29 15:21 .
drwxr-x--- 31 kansari adm 1536 May 29 15:26 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 59 Jan 18 16:44 .eclipseproduct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 10540 Jan 18 16:44 Eclipse.l.pm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 7916 Jan 18 16:44 Eclipse.m.pm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 6796 Jan 18 16:44 Eclipse.s.pm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 5620 Jan 18 16:44 Eclipse.t.pm
drwxr-xr-x 2 kansari adm 512 May 29 15:19 configuration
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kansari adm 48992 Jan 18 16:44 eclipse
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 25 Jan 18 16:44 eclipse.ini
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 16536 Jan 18 16:44 epl-v10.html
drwxr-xr-x 11 kansari adm 512 May 29 15:19 features
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 6506 Jan 18 16:44 notice.html
drwxr-xr-x 26 kansari adm 4096 May 29 15:19 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 2 kansari adm 512 May 29 15:19 readme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kansari adm 32567 Jan 18 16:44 startup.jar
$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/java
$ ./eclipse
./eclipse: cannot execute
$ csh
kansariultra% ./eclipse
./eclipse: Invalid argument
kansariultra% /usr/java/bin/java
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
(to execute a class)
or java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...]
(to execute a jar file)..........

I am not sure what to do next. "eclipse" has all executbale permissions but it is still not running.