I downloaded Notepad++ from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.5.1/npp.7.5.1.Installer.x64.exe.
And I installed the same. Now I need to install few plugins, but in the menu option Plugins there are only Converter and MIME tools listed, but not Plugin Manager.
Edit: They have removed Plugin Manager with the version 7.5. Still it can be added by following #johnny 's instruction in the best solution.
P.S: The plugin manager is only supporting the 32-bit version.
As of Notepad++ version 7.5, plugin manager is no longer shipped with Notepad++
From the Notepad++ release notes:
You may notice that Plugin Manager plugin has been removed from the official distribution. The reason is Plugin Manager contains the advertising in its dialog. I hate Ads in applications, and I ensure you that there was no, and there will never be Ads in Notepad++.
A built-in Plugin Manager is in progress, and I will do my best to ship it with Notepad++ ASAP.
If the above doesn't put you off, and you want to proceed and install the plugin manager anyway, it looks like there's a GitHub repository for nppPluginManager - though I haven't personally used it, so cannot comment on it's validity.
The nppPluginManager installation instructions state:
To install the plugin manager, simply download (links below) the .zip, and place the PluginManager.dll file in the Notepad++ plugins directory, and the gpup.exe in the updater directory under your Notepad++ program directory. (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater")
In fact, if you prefer, you can just add the PluginManager.dll to the plugins directory, then do a reinstall of Plugin Manager from the plugin itself, which will place the file in the right place! Of course, if you're already using an earlier version of the plugin manager, you'll be able to just update from the update tab (or when you get the notification that the update has happened).
The GitHub repository also contains the latest release.
Follow the steps given below:
Download Plugin Manager from here.
You can find the most updated version in the release section in the Git repository:
Extract the contents of zip file under "C:\Program Files\Notepad++"
Restart Notepad++
That's it !!
To install a plugin without Plugin Manager:
Download your plugin and extract contents in a folder. You will find a .dll file inside. Copy it.
Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\pluginsand paste the .dll
Run Notepad++
You can download the latest Plugin Manager version PluginManager_latest_version_x64.zip.
Unzip the file.
Copy
PluginManager_latest_version_x64.zip\updater\gpup.exe
into
path-to-installed-notepad\notepad++\updater\
Copy
PluginManager_latest_version_x64.zip\plugins\PluginManager.dll
into
path-to-installed-notepad\notepad++\plugins\
Start or restart Notepad++.
Enjoy!
The way to install plugins seems to have changed, the previous answers here did not work for me.
The current (checked with 7.8.1) way to install plugins is to install it in a sub folder:
The plugin (in the DLL form) should be placed in the plugins subfolder of the Notepad++ Install Folder, under the subfolder with the same name of plugin binary name without file extension. For example, if the plugin you want to install named myAwesomePlugin.dll, you should install it with the following path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin\myAwesomePlugin.dll
from https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/plugins/
So PluginManager.dll goes into PluginManager sub folder.
Notepad v7.6 includes a Plugin Admin and from this you can install Plugin Manager(note1) but it doesn't work fine with npp v7.6(note2)
On the other hand Plugin Admin is only available on NPP "Setup version" and after following conditions
on Custom installation, "Plugin Admin" checkbox is enabled
on Choose Components "Don't use %APPDATA%" checkbox is disabled
Plugin Admin will place plugins at C:\ProgramData\Notepad++\plugins
(note1)Installation from Plugin Admin is not complete and \updater\gpup.exe is missing
(note2) Plugin manager is not using new plugins path and folder structure; from version 7.6 npp Plugins will be stored in individual folders (having same name than file.dll)
If you want to use npp7.6 portable, you can copy updater folder from Setup version, copy plugins from Setup version, or copy Plugins from npp v<7.6 and place each one in a individual folder.
Latest version of Notepad++ got a new built-in plugin manager which works nicely.
My system was 32 bit. I removed and re-installed Notepad++. After that from below got PluginManager_v1.4.12_UNI.zip and extracted it.
https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/releases
I created a folder called PluginManager at C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\ and copied PluginManager.dll into it. I restarted my notepad++ and now I see Plugin Manager.
A direct process to install / configure Plugin Manager :
Download the latest version of NotepadPlus Plugin Manager from the
official Github handle.
Extract the zip file.
Copy the pluginmanager.dll file and paste in C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\PluginManager directory.
Restart the Notepad++
Note: Create the
PluginManager directory if it is not present.
Notepad++ v8.1.2 has it where it used to be
I changed the plugin folder name. Restart Notepad ++
It works now, a
It can be installed with one command for N++ installer version:
choco install notepadplusplus-nppPluginManager
Today I need a solution to avoid creating a installation directory by install4j version 6.1.3 in a context of a patch installation. I wrote an installer which contains some files to install them to an existing application installation. The files should be bundled together with the patch installer. At the install files action i deactivated the install runtime selection point but the installer still created the installation directory containing a folder called .install4j. In this folder there are only some install4j files. When I deactivate the whole install files action the folder will not be created but the bundles files will also be not extracted to the temp-dircetory, right? I also marked the installation directory as an excluded file at the media-wizard. Do I missed something?
Thanks in advance
I would recommend to use the "Add-on installer" installer type on the "Installer->Update options" step.
If you need to update the version number, an alternative solution would be to remove the "Install files" action and add a ZIP file files.zip on the "Installer->Custom Code & resources" step that contains the new files. In the "Installation" screen, add an "Install content of a ZIP file" action with the "Zip file" property set to ${installer:sys.resourceDir}/files.zip.
i am generating an installer for a desktop application using install4j 4.0.5 compiled by
j2re1.4.2_08 and running on WindowsXP.The Problem is that The uninstaller does not delete any files unless the files that have been installed by a previous installer.
Example : It install my application into program files folder lets say
"Vodafone". My application further creates some files and folder into "vodafone"
folder. At the time of uninstall it delete every thing whatever create
by setup while files and folder created by my application remains
there in "vodafone" even after restart my machine several time so i need to delete all files inside the installation folder .
I need your support to know how to fix this problem and if there is any workaround i can do to solve this issue.
The uninstaller does not delete all files and folders in the installation folder. Only the following files will be deleted:
Files that are contained in the installer and have an uninstallation policy that leads to uninstallation, such as "Always" or "If created".
Files that were registered with context.registerUninstallFile(...) by the installer
If the installation directory is empty after those files have been deleted, the installation directory will be deleted as well.
If you want to delete other externally created files, use the "Delete files or directories" action instead.
I was always disappointed when I have to update Springsource Toolsuite (would also apply to Eclipse, but I never had so much update issues with it), because it takes a rather long amount of time and update function inside of STS doesn't work that well. For example it was not possible for me to upgrade from 2.9.1 to 2.9.2, so I was forced to a reinstallation. In this question I want to show how I do this and I am hoping to get some feedback to improve this process:
I always ensure that I have this plugin installed from the market: P2 Installation Replication. It allows me to select and dump all my plugin info into a single XML file. So I start the old version of STS and dump my plugin list to a file with date in the file name to have different versions.
Then I close STS and rename the root directory to something like "springsource_old"
I download the new version as ZIP file and extract it in a single directory.
I use Lombok, so I download it and doubleclick on the JAR to install it for the chosen STS install location. Normally Lombok finds the installation if you stick to C:\springsource\.. or similar default locations.
Next I update the STS.INI file to force STS to use a specific version of the Java SDK with the -vm flag. If you have a lot of eclipse workspaces to manage it is also helpful to have them shown in the title bar of the window. So I include -showlocation in the INI file. It doesn’t have to appear first, just before -vmargs so that it doesn’t appear to be a JVM argument.
Then I start STS, choose the first workspace and close it again. This generates some preference files. What I want to have is the list of all workspaces. STS (Eclipse) is storing the workspace information in a preferences file called "org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs".
This file is located under "%ECLIPSE_HOME%\configuration.settings" and contains a key named "RECENT_WORKSPACES". So open the file in the backup location, copy the entries, open the new generated file, and copy the settings into it. The next time I start STS, I can choose between all previous used workspaces again.
Even when no plugin is installed, STS (Eclipse) can natively open the files with the dumped plugins from step 1 (Import - Install - Install Software Items from File). It also allows to fetch the latest version instead of the version which was saved in the XML file. So I select and fetch all my missing plugins.
What is still missing from your experience? How could I improve this process? It still takes some time.
Update
Can't be that I am the only one who has problems with updating STS. Today the update from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 came and now my STS looks like:
So I still have the issue that after every major update STS is not working anymore.
What exactly was the problem that you had? In general, you should be able to upgrade from a point release to the next point release with no problems (eg- from 2.9.1 to 2.9.2).
There was a problem at one point, which prevented you from upgrading, but that is fixed now. See here: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?126775-Cannot-update-Grails-Support-from-2-9-1-to-2-9-2&p=413794#post413794
If you are having troubles upgrading, please post to the STS forum and paste the error that p2 is giving you with your message.
Sometimes, when upgrading you can look at the error message and see what component is not being found. You may need to add a new update site or de-select an incompatible feature.
We have an RCP application and we are looking for a better way to do installation/updates. Currently to install, they just unzip a zip file. The zip file also contains scripts in it that are not java code. We were running into some bugs when updating if they don't first delete the old folder that was previous unzipped. The issue with deleting the folder is that the user loses the plugin preferences that were set. The installation would also need to register a COM server. The update would have to update the plugins and also replace the current script folder. What are some of the best options that could be used for installing and updating rcp apps? Thanks!
An option is to use the eclipse update mechanism. In this case the user would simply update like in the eclipse ide using help->software update. I have not used it myself yet ,but I have visited a tutorial from kai tödter, just google "eclipse rcp adanced kai tödter" und you will find some stuff, e.g. slides where he explains the updated mechanism as well as an example project "MP3 Manager" where you can find an example