Step 1

This was a failure put here to show what I did and maybe someone can see what I did wrong. Step 2 is where stuff stopped working.

We are going to install Eclipse IDE in to run our code for OpenCV. For all of you Linux aficionados or those who have already figured out the pains of trying to install eclipse from the terminal (like most things you do in Linux), will most definitely fail because Java (this being on the Ubuntu Bionic Beaver).

I tried many different ways to make this work. I tried to install an older version on java that supports Eclipse, but had little luck getting eclipse to do anything more than provide an error message that explains that you should check the logs for more information.

After googling the information in the logs I found other people who were stuck at the same place and started to look at other pages that detailed how to install it though ubuntu-make. Long story abridged, that didn't work either.

The amazingly simple way I installed Eclipse IDE will shock the masses. I simply went to the Ubuntu Software Center and searched for Eclipse. Of course, it found it and I installed it. When going through the lists I noticed that there were two listings of Eclipse, I uninstalled the first one and installed the second one. This one worked.

So, if anyone has any issues, go to the little icon that looks like a paper shopping bag with the A on it. Click the search bar and type in Eclipse, and install the darker blue one.

Now that I have explained how to install Eclipse without wasting a week to do so, lets move onto making our IDE able to help us with C++. To do this, start Eclipse and click on Eclipse Marketplace in the welcome screen.

What we want is Eclipse C/C++ CDT 9.4 Oxygen.2, It looks like this:

Now we should have everything we need to begin programming C/C++. Now let's setup everything for OpenCV.... in the next instalment of "How To Make Stuff Work In Linux/ROS?" aka part 2 of calibrating the 360 camera for ROS.

10/6/18