Installing Spring STS or Eclipse IDE on Linux Mint 16

The steps in this section are for Spring STS, but these can be used for eclipse as well.
The instructions involves installing Spring ide or eclipse from source and then creating a startup Menu option so it can be launched from the menu.

Download the latest version of eclipse or Spring STS

curl -O http://download.springsource.com/release/STS/3.4.0/dist/e4.3/spring-tool-suite-3.4.0.RELEASE-e4.3.1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf spring-tool-suite-3.4.0.RELEASE-e4.3.1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

sudo mv springsource /opt
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/springsource
sudo chmod -R +r /opt/springsource
sudo cp /opt/springsource/sts-3.4.0.RELEASE/icon.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps/sts.xpm

Run this command to create a file with startup options for sts or eclipse.

sudo cat >> /usr/share/applications/sts.desktop<<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Spring IDE
Comment=Spring IDE
Exec=/opt/springsource/sts-3.4.0.RELEASE/STS
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/sts.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true
EOF


Navigate to Menu -> Programming -> Spring IDE
This should now launch eclipse or Spring ide instance.