Usually we install a package on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using the apt-get command (or the Ubuntu Software Center) and we have the application available to us via the Dash Search Icon with all the necessary binaries in the user PATH. However, some applications are not bundled as apt packages and we need to install them ourselves. In this case, one major issue is that of not having a launcher icon and not having the binary in user PATH. Let's see the example of manual PHP Eclipse i.e. PDT installation You need to be root user for this, I usually keep manually installed applications in /opt directory Download eclipse package using wget or using your browser https://eclipse.org/pdt/#download cd /opt/ mkdir php_eclipse cd php_eclipse cp -rf eclipse-php-mars-1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz . tar -xvfz eclipse-php-mars-1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz Type eclipse in the Search bar and you can see your newly installed eclipse icon. Click on it and your application launches. cd eclipse The
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