Eclipse IDE for Cell Broadband Engine SDK

First step consist in installing Java JDK 1.4. Once Java is installed the enviorment variables JAVA_HOME and Path have to point to the jre directory.

For example: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_13/jre
PATH=$PATH:/$JAVA_HOME/bin

We can edit this lines in ~/.bash_profile .There are many ways of modifying/creating these variables, like editing /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc if we launch eclipse from a terminal, etc.

Next step is installing eclipse 3.2.x, CDT 3.1. In order to install the ide plugin for eclipse move to the eclipse menu:

Help -> Software Updates -> Find and install -> New local site ( /opt/cell/ide ), and then select ‘com.ibm.celldt.update‘.