How do you handle old/corrupted plugins in Eclipse?
What are some good ways to clean a current installation of Eclipse? (Juno, Kepler)
Are there any 3rd party software for that?
Thanks.
You can uninstall plugins which you have installed. This can be done using
About Eclipse -> Installation details -> Uninstall selected plugins
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I have created RCP Project which have only Install New Software functionality, i installed a plugin through Install New Software and i want to uninstall that plugin, Is there any way to uninstall the plugin ?
In eclipse use Help -> About eclipse IDE ->Installation details
This will show all installed plugins in eclipse. You can select one and uninstall that.
My Eclipse Marketplace/Install New Software links are not working. Is there any other way to install a plugin in Eclipse? Can you please tell me where I can download a plugin independently and install in Eclipse manually?
Thanks in advance!
You can install a plugin from an archive.
In install new software
Click on Add
Under Location Click Archive
Another simpler way: Some plugins have an Install button on the Marketplace website (e.g. this) which you can simply drag & drop to Eclipse.
If you just have a plugin rather than an install package (also known as an update site) then copy the plugin to the dropins folder in the Eclipse install and restart Eclipse.
I have installed cdt-master-6.0.2.zip (link) to my Eclipse by extracting it to the Eclipse installation dir. I'm using Eclipse 3.5 in Windows 7 x86 machine. But the plugin doesn't show up when I start Eclipse (I can't create a new cpp project). Yet cdt shows up in Help > About Eclipse SDK > About Eclipse SDK Features. What am I missing here?
To install plug-ins into Eclipse you should always prefer using the user interface through Help > Install new software menu.
Anyway if you really want to install plug-ins manually into your Eclipse installation, you have to place them into the dropins folder.
BUT this way you will have to resolve plug-in dependencies by yourself. If all dependencies are not satifsied, the concerned plug-ins will fail to start silently. This is why you should REALLY prefer to use the standard plug-in installation method to avoid any problem.
I want to install maven plugin on eclipse helios but I can only find the core plugin in market place and extras plugin (maven integration for eclipse(Extras)) is missing. can some one please help in this installation and update me that why Extras have been removed from marketplace.
Regards
Firstly, you may want to use Eclipse Indigo (3.7), which comes with m2e (successor to m2eclipse).
If not, you can install m2eclipse-extras the traditional way, "Install new software..." using the archived releases.
I'm trying to uninstall Tasktop from my Eclipse IDE, but when I select it the uninstall button keeps being disabled (maybe because of some dependent plugin I can't find)
Has anyone had a similar experience? I could use some pointers on how to get this plugin uninstalled.
I had other problem with the task top plugin. I followed the conventional way to uninstall the plugin. Help -> About Eclipse -> Installed Software. The plugin was removed from the list of installed software, but still existed as a plugin, Even after resets.
As a last option I manually removed all com.tasktop.* jars and directories from the eclipse\plugin directory. That seems to do the work without any side effect damage for now.
Of course you will have to close eclipse prior to the above action.
Where are you going for the uninstall? If you go to Help -> About Eclipse -> Installed Software, you should be able to uninstall any top-level feature there. Is this not your experience?