I cant find Eclipse neon in the software manager. There are some very lengthy tutorials on how to do it via the terminal using some yedi tricks. I cant do that, I use Eclipse for work and not as a play station substitution, I need to install it and run it and get my work done. I come from windows, there I just hit the setup.exe and Im done. So I need a similar way in Linux which must exist because I read that all applications can be installed via the software manager which led me to now switch to Linux. Thanks for any hints.

PS: Thanks for the warm welcome by giving a down vote 15 minutes after posting. Really encouraging the Linux newbies ...

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Go to . Find the "Get Eclipse Neon" block, there should be a "Download 64 bit" button there, then the "Download" button. That will give you a "eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz". Open it with your archive manager. Extract it to a temporary location (subdir of Downloads, most likely). Then open the resulting "eclipse-installer" directory and execute the "eclipse-inst" executable. Follow the instructions.

In short, the packaged software installer for Linux will be a little behind the latest available versions for packages, and may not always be the best way to install particular things.

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