Here is my Eclipse PDT Preferences file which can be imported in Eclipse.
The settings are the minimal that I need in order to work.

Download The Minimal Eclipse PDT Preferences for Web Development on LAMP

Related Links:

PHP Development Tool (PDT) Downloads from Zend: http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/all-in-one/

Workaround for Heap Space Problem in Eclipse

Getting Eclipse to Work on Ubuntu

My earlier experience with Eclipse on Ubuntu can be found at

Getting Eclipse to Work on Ubuntu

Heap Space Problem:
I was wondering why configuring eclipse.ini file in /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse.ini wasn’t reflecting.

My eclipse.ini file ha the following content:

————————————————————-
-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
————————————————————-

But this didn’t get reflected.
To check the heap status at all time do the following:
Goto Window -> Preference inside Eclipse.
In the general Section you will see a checkbox labeled Show heap status
Make sure this is checked. If this is checked you should be able to see bar in the bottom displaying the Heap Status. I saw that it always saw xxM of 62M SO my assignment of 256 M wasnt working.

Then I tried to set the Heap Space through terminal each time i run Eclipse then it worked.
Here is the command that I used.

eclipse -data /home/rungss/workspaces/eclipse-pdt -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M

-data is the option to select the Workspace.
Now I have set new item in my Top Panel with the following details for each of my Workspaces.

To add a new Item to the Panel right click on the Panel click on Add to Panel from the popup menu.

You will see a popup window to select a Program to launch.
Select Custom Application Launcher which you should see at top left.

Now in the new popup window enter the following information
Type: Select Application from the drop down box (It will be selected by default)
Name: Enter the name for this Launch Configuration I have (Eclipse PDT)
Command: enter the command here in my case it is eclipse -data /home/rungss/workspaces/eclipse-pdt -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M
Comments: Enter any Comment if you want to(It helps as You see both the Name and the Description on the tooltip for the Panel item.) I have set it to Eclipse PDT Workspace
Click on Close.

This works fine for me.

Now I dont see the Heap space Problem any more.

Getting Eclipse to wiork on Ubuntu for all my Development Work proved to be very tricky.
There are issues related to permission compatibility and what not.

Here is what worked for me.
After installing and uninstalling Eclipse and deleting the Workspace for quite a few times, I first removed all the Packages with the search term eclipse from the Synaptic Package Manager (Top Bar -> System Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)

Then I used the steps as explained in the iteratively documented tutorial at Ubuntuforum in the following url

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378

After doing this, the first time I run the Editor from the terminal with the following command
rungss@rungss-ubuntu: eclipse -clean

then I included the following Update sites
name=”Subclipse Subversion Plugin” url=”http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x“
name=”The Eclipse 3.3 Project Updates” url=”http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.3“
name=”Europa Discovery Site” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/releases/europa“
name=”PDT Updates” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/“
name=”Web Tools Platform (WTP) Updates” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates“

By default there were two sites

name=”The Eclipse Project Updates” url=”http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.2“
name=”Callisto Discovery Site” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/callisto/releases“

Here is the link of Update Site Bookmarks which you can import through the Eclipse Update manager.
http://bijay.rungta.googlepages.com/ubuntu-lamp-eclipse-update-sites-boo.xml

Note: be careful with the ending /(slash) for the site urls enter them as is in the above list. Its strange that for some sites the end “/” is valid while not for others.

Then I searched for Updates..

Upon the listing of all available features I selected a few based on my preferences. The following is the list of them

• Subclipse Plugin from Subclipse Update site
• PDT features and PDT SDK features from the PDT Update Site
• Eclipse 3.3 from the Eclipse 3.3 Project Update Site.(I like the view in 3.3 where you can minimize all panels and view any one of them as you wish irrespective of the Perspective you are viewing the Editor)
• WTP from Europa Site and some other CVS related features.

While selecting these features I clicked on the Select Required button when I saw any error for incompatibility in selected features.

Next I signed the Agreements and when Saving them I selected the folder “/usr/local/lib/eclipse” to install features where it was in any other Directory than the base installation location (Basically wherever it permitted to do so.)
This is done so that other users can also use them. Advise taken from the article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseWebTools

That is all This seems to work for me.
Here are the various webpages that I reviewed many a times during the whole process

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseWebTools
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseIDE

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/68053
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/68053
http://flurdy.com/docs/eclipse/install.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3177266
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/PNphpBB2-printview-t-2556-start-0.html
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.3.1.1.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-436316.html

PS: The strategy to install plugins in the directory /usr/local/lib/eclipse again had some problems. Was getting an error message saying conflict entries..
I guess what happened is some of the files(a part of some plugin was exisitng in both the directory usr/lib/eclipse and usr/local/lib/eclipse) or may be because i installed Eclipse 3.3 on Eclipse 3.2 I have started the Eclipse 3.3 updation right now and wil realize if thats what the problem was in some time. Will update the post.

So I had to uninstall the Eclipse again and then I reinstalled. But to my Surprise I got the same error again(Conflict..)
I later realized that this was because when I installed it after uninstalling it… It was basically installed from the cache on the Local Computer..

So I run the following command to first clear the cache

apt-get clean

Thanks to teh article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGetHowto

And then I reinstalled eclipse with the following the steps at the Page
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378

Lets see how it goes now…

Getting Eclipse to wiork on Ubuntu for all my Development Work proved to be very tricky.
There are issues related to permission compatibility and what not.

Here is what worked for me.
After installing and uninstalling Eclipse and deleting the Workspace for quite a few times, I first removed all the Packages with the search term eclipse from the Synaptic Package Manager (Top Bar -> System Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)

Then I used the steps as explained in the iteratively documented tutorial at Ubuntuforum in the following url

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378

After doing this, the first time I run the Editor from the terminal with the following command
rungss@rungss-ubuntu: eclipse -clean

then I included the following Update sites
name=”Subclipse Subversion Plugin” url=”http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x“
name=”The Eclipse 3.3 Project Updates” url=”http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.3“
name=”Europa Discovery Site” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/releases/europa“
name=”PDT Updates” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/“
name=”Web Tools Platform (WTP) Updates” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates“

By default there were two sites

name=”The Eclipse Project Updates” url=”http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.2“
name=”Callisto Discovery Site” url=”http://download.eclipse.org/callisto/releases“

Here is the link of Update Site Bookmarks which you can import through the Eclipse Update manager.
http://bijay.rungta.googlepages.com/ubuntu-lamp-eclipse-update-sites-boo.xml

Note: be careful with the ending /(slash) for the site urls enter them as is in the above list. Its strange that for some sites the end “/” is valid while not for others.

Then I searched for Updates..

Upon the listing of all available features I selected a few based on my preferences. The following is the list of them

• Subclipse Plugin from Subclipse Update site
• PDT features and PDT SDK features from the PDT Update Site
• Eclipse 3.3 from the Eclipse 3.3 Project Update Site.(I like the view in 3.3 where you can minimize all panels and view any one of them as you wish irrespective of the Perspective you are viewing the Editor)
• WTP from Europa Site and some other CVS related features.

While selecting these features I clicked on the Select Required button when I saw any error for incompatibility in selected features.

Next I signed the Agreements and when Saving them I selected the folder “/usr/local/lib/eclipse” to install features where it was in any other Directory than the base installation location (Basically wherever it permitted to do so.)
This is done so that other users can also use them. Advise taken from the article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseWebTools

That is all This seems to work for me.
Here are the various webpages that I reviewed many a times during the whole process

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseWebTools
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseIDE

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/68053
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/68053
http://flurdy.com/docs/eclipse/install.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3177266
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/PNphpBB2-printview-t-2556-start-0.html
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.3.1.1.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-436316.html

PS: The strategy to install plugins in the directory /usr/local/lib/eclipse again had some problems. Was getting an error message saying conflict entries..
I guess what happened is some of the files(a part of some plugin was exisitng in both the directory usr/lib/eclipse and usr/local/lib/eclipse) or may be because i installed Eclipse 3.3 on Eclipse 3.2 I have started the Eclipse 3.3 updation right now and wil realize if thats what the problem was in some time. Will update the post.

So I had to uninstall the Eclipse again and then I reinstalled. But to my Surprise I got the same error again(Conflict..)
I later realized that this was because when I installed it after uninstalling it… It was basically installed from the cache on the Local Computer..

So I run the following command to first clear the cache

apt-get clean

Thanks to teh article at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGetHowto

And then I reinstalled eclipse with the following the steps at the Page
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378

Lets see how it goes now…