[Mac] Installing Eclipse Kepler (4.3) on Mountain Lion + Japanese Localization

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Wed, September 19, 2012

Here’s how to install Eclipse Kepler (4.3) on Mac OS X Mountain Lion and localize it to Japanese.

Updated from Juno (4.2) → Kepler (4.3), with some content revisions.

(Last updated: 2013/07/09)

Download Eclipse Standard

・DL:Eclipse Downloads

After extracting the tar.gz file, you’ll get an eclipse folder. In my case, I moved this to Applications (/Applications).

% ls -l /Applications/eclipse
total 296
drwxr-xr-x@   3 your_username  staff     102  6 14 11:56 Eclipse.app
-rw-r--r--@   1 your_username  staff  114474  6 14 11:56 artifacts.xml
drwxr-xr-x@   6 your_username  staff     204  6 14 11:56 configuration
drwxr-xr-x@   2 your_username  staff      68  6 14 11:56 dropins
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 your_username  staff      34  6 14 11:56 eclipse -> Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse
-rw-r--r--@   1 your_username  staff   16536  6  6 09:04 epl-v10.html
drwxr-xr-x@  33 your_username  staff    1122  6 14 11:56 features
-rw-r--r--@   1 your_username  staff    9230  6  6 09:04 notice.html
drwxr-xr-x@   4 your_username  staff     136  6 14 11:55 p2
drwxr-xr-x@ 448 your_username  staff   15232  6 14 11:56 plugins
drwxr-xr-x@   3 your_username  staff     102  6 14 11:56 readme

Download Pleiades All in One Japanese Distribution (zip)

From the link below, click the “Eclipse Kepler Pleiades All in One” button, then download the Ultimate 64bit Standard Edition (without JRE) from “Pleiades All in One Japanese Distribution”.

Pleiades - Eclipse Plugin Japanese Localization Plugin | MergeDoc Project

Copy all contents under the dropins folder.


Download Pleiades Plugin

■ Download Pleiades main package (stable version 1.4.0)

Copy the contents of features and plugins directories.


Edit eclipse.ini

Right-click Eclipse.app and select “Show Package Contents”, then add the following settings to the end of Contents > MacOS > eclipse.ini:

-javaagent:../../../plugins/jp.sourceforge.mergedoc.pleiades/pleiades.jar
-Dfile.encoding=utf-8

First Eclipse Launch

For the first time only, launch eclipse clean with the following command:

/Applications/eclipse/eclipse -clean

Reference Information

For more details, read these resources:

PROGRAMMING NOTE » How to install Eclipse Juno 4.2 on os x mountain lion (10.8)

Installing Eclipse Juno on Mountain Lion and Japanese Localization « Life goes on…


Installing Various Other Components

After installation, I set up environments for Git, SVN, CVS, and PHP. (Installed EGit, Subversive, PDT)

【eclipse】Eclipse+git+SVN+PDT in 4.2 (3.8 also released) at softel memo

Installed with SVN Connectors + SVNKit.

Subversive Plugin Installation Memo

That’s all from installing Eclipse Kepler (4.3) on Mac OS X Mountain Lion + Japanese localization, from the Gemba.