Pointing Eclipse to the local javadocs

This pictorial shows you how to setup your Eclipse to use our local, updated, copy of Sun's Java API.

1. First of all, start Eclipse. The shortcut is in the 'Programming' submenu of your Applications Menu.

2. In the upper menu, click Window, then Preferences.



3. You should now see a window titled Preferences. In the list on your left, doubleclick on 'Java'.



4. Now double click on 'Installed JREs'.



5. Under the list of installed JREs, click on 'java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11'. There should be only one entry in the list. Then click the Edit button located on the right side.



6. You now have another new window titled Edit JRE. In the list titled JRE system libraries:, click on /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/rt.jar, then click the Javadoc Location button on the right side.



7. Another new window. Clear any text in the field titled 'Javadoc location path:', in it's place, type in "file:/usr/share/doc/sun-java5-doc/html/api/".



8. Should look like this when the text is entered properly.



9. Now click OK, then click OK, then click OK, etc, until you've closed all of the dialogue windows.