Installing Eclipse Neon with the Force.com IDE plugin

We will start by installing Eclipse on the developer machine. To install Eclipse, you should have a minimum of Java 6 installed. If it is not installed, you can install it from the official website at https://java.com/en/download/.

We are going to install Eclipse Neon. Java version 7 is required for Eclipse Neon.

The following are the prerequisites for a development environment for Salesforce:

  • Operating systems:
    • Windows 7, 8, or 10
    • macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, or 10.11
    • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 14.04 LTS
  • Java SE Development Kit (JDK), Runtime Environment 8 or later (Java download page).

The installation steps are as follows:

  1. Eclipse 4.5 or later is recommended. Go to the download site ...

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