  The object of this paper is to study $\eta$-Ricci solitons on
$(\varepsilon)$-almost paracontact metric manifolds. We investigate
$\eta$-Ricci solitons in the case when its potential vector field is exactly
the characteristic vector field $\xi$ of the $(\varepsilon)$-almost paracontact
metric manifold and when the potential vector field is torse-forming. We also
study Einstein-like and $(\varepsilon)$-para Sasakian manifolds admitting
$\eta$-Ricci solitons. Finally we obtain some results for $\eta$-Ricci solitons
on $(\varepsilon)$-almost paracontact metric manifolds with a special view
towards parallel symmetric (0,2)-tensor fields.
