The default JRE that comes installed with some Linux distributions (GCJ) is not sufficient.
Note: if you have a 64bit PPC machine, you will need to install and use a 32bit Java runtime environment, as Eclipse for PPC is compiled for the 32bit architecture.
2.) Configure your environment to use the new Java JRE
Eclipse uses the java virtual machine that is pointed to by your linux PATH variable. To find out which version of java is being used, execute the command: "java -version".
If the java version is not GCJ, you can skip to step 3, otherwise, you will need to configure your environment to use the correct JVM. This can be done in one of two ways:
Modify your PATH variable so that it includes the new Java JRE bin path (ex: PATH=$HOME/bin:/opt/java/jdk1.6.0_05/jre/bin:$PATH). You can modify your PATH variable by editing the file $HOME/.bash_profile
OR
Use the -vm command (when launching eclipse) to tell eclipse to use a different JVM than the one pointed to by the java command. Ex: eclipse -vm /opt/java/jdk1.6.0_05/jre/bin
6.) Install the PTP Cell/B.E into Eclipse via PTP update site
7.) Install the ALF IDE template package
If you wish to use the ALF IDE Wizard, you will need to install the ALF IDE template RPM ("alf-ide-template").
Make sure you have the Cell SDK's "cell-install" RPM package installed, then execute the following command:
> yum install alf-ide-template
8.) Restart Eclipse to ensure all settings take effect
Note: it is a good idea to run eclipse with -clean at least the first time after you install new plug-ins to make
sure eclipse will refresh its plug-in cache