title: In Ubuntu, is it a good idea to launch eclipse with sudo?
body: <p>I used maven to download mahout and hadoop recently. Because I could not seem to do that without using sudo mvn commands, eclipse could not seem to be able to use anything I had downloaded (there were lots of errors like parents of things like POM.xml being permission denied etc.) and more recently than that I was trying out mahout (with local jars downloaded directly from one of apache's mirrors, not from maven) and although I could run the class the first time, I couldn't do it again because my eclipse instance could not overwrite the file I had already written.</p>
  
  <p>These are just examples of times I feel it would have been good to be running eclipse as superuser by doing </p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo eclipse
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  <p>Instead of just launching it normally. The only problem I can think of is that as root eclipse suggests you use the root/workspace, but is it ok to just tell it to use yourusername/workspace?</p>