what you call a software that requires no installation only unzipping like eclipse where it has no installation only we have to unzip and also for uninstalling just delete the Workspace.
That's typically called a portable application.
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I am currently trying to make an Eclipse istallation with installed plugins portable, so that you only have to copy the whole "eclipse"-folder to another system and have the same setup as on the original system.
My problem now is, that since eclipse 4.2 (?) when using Help > Install new Software... plugins are installed externally into the folder
C:/Users/Username/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.0_identifier
and not into the folder where the "eclipse.exe" is located:
C:/Program Files (x86)/eclipse
Now my question is if it is possible to make eclipse install additional plugins into the plugins/features-folder of eclipse's home folder (C:/Program Files (x86)/eclipse).
Unfortunately, it isn't possible to use the dropins-folder, because one plugin that shall be installed only exists as an update site.
I'm using
Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 64bit
with
Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
Version: Juno Service Release 2
32-bit (to provide portability).
Greets :)
Do not put your eclipse installation under the "Program Files" folder. Eclipse will install all plugins to its own folder by default, unless that folder is not writable from Eclipse. And the "Program Files" folder should not be writable by you (unless you are using administrative access rights). Only the trusted installer service account should modify that folder (following Windows guidelines).
Therefore unzip Eclipse somewhere else into a location where anyone is allowed to write, install your plugins and zip the whole folder again.
As an alternative to that ZIP package you may want to look at File -> Export -> Install -> Software items to file, where you can export (and re-import) a list of your already installed plugins.
What mack is trying to do should work, this is essentially what the eclipse foundation do to provide the various distros.
The plugin that is only available as an update site could be installed into and existing in-installation then copied to the new distro. Only trick is making sure you have all the feature and plugin jar files.
I would like to make an offline Eclipse installation with JDT, CDT and a few other plugins. This is what I would like to do, in decreasing preference:
Create an installation package similar to the ones available for download on the Eclipse website. Question: How can this be done? How are they created? Is there some kind of automated tool that gets the packages from p2 repositories and builds them? Is there a detailed explanation somewhere of how they are created? (I am aware of Yoxos, but that is a few versions old)
Do the installation on an internet-connected computer, and then copy the folder to another computer. Question: Can this be done? Will a simple Copy/Paste work correctly? Is there anything I can delete from the installation that will be automatically recreated?
Use an Eclipse package, say JDT, and a downloaded copy (zip file?) of the CDT and other plugins, and install them on the target machine using the standard Eclipse plugin installation from a local archive method. Question Where can I get these downloads?
The simplest approach you could use is to start from the eclipse "classic" package downloaded directly from the site, and then manually install the other components you need via update manager. You can then zip the eclipse directory and distribute it without any problem.
Otherwise you could try to use Yoxos to create your package, download and distribute it
Who knows how to customize your own eclipse? I want to include some plugins and use it as bundled solution and not to install additional plugin when I want to use it on other machine.
This is what I've done in the past.
The first thing you have to do is a fresh install of eclipse, all the plugins you intend to use, and their configurations. After that just copy the eclipse folder AND the workspace/.metadata folder (this one could be an hidden folder) to the new machine.
Copying those folders to a new machine and running eclipse with the -clean flag (only needed the first time) seems to work fine so far.
I ran into some problems when trying to use 32bit eclipse in an 64bit environment, but I guess it's normal that it doesn't work. Also, this is not a cross-platform solution, i.e you cannot use your Mac installation of eclipse in Windows, or vice-versa.
I think you are referring to so called Individual Source Bundle, which you can build and create your own setup that will install your custom Eclipse bundle on desired machine.
Another solution would be just creating simple install/archive that will unpack c:\eclipse\ to c:\eclipse\ (or whatever) on target machine. This will work since Eclipse is not hardware dependent (but sure, it is OS dependent) because it's Java based.
Is this possible to download GWT plugins for eclipse separately ( without downloading with eclipse directly ) ?
because i need to install it on multiple eclipse on multiple pc and I want to archive it for future needs.
I want to paste it in dropins folder in eclipse later.
Regards
Here you go:
http://code.google.com/eclipse/docs/install-from-zip.html
Prepare one eclipse installation the way you like using the standard update sites.
Then you can archive this installation by just copying the eclipse folder and zipping it away somewhere.
To install a new eclipse just take the archive and unzip it on the target system.
With this you have the advantage of still having the automatic updates for the different installations.
We have a custom plug-in. That is, the company where I'm working developed it in house.
I would like to install it as an available plug-in in Eclipse Ganymede. How do I do that?
From what I can figure out, the Eclipse software install only supports installation from Eclipse software update sites.
I went to Help -> Install New Software... -> Add -> Local...
to browse to a folder containing the plug-in. Although the dialog lets me add the directory as an update site, it doesn't work. It expects that directory to be a local Eclipse update site (I think). I get the error
No repository found at file:/G:/TOOLS/...
Next I just copied the plug-in into the plug-in directory under my Eclipse installation. That didn't work either. I also tried copying it into the dropins directory. No dice.
Can anyone enlighten me how to install a plug-in that's not on an "update" site?
Thanks in advance....
Usually an Eclipse plug-in packaged as zip file is install by extracting it into the Eclipse installation directory (or the plugins directory depending on how it is packaged, as it can also extract files in features directory).
Next restart Eclipse with the --clean option.
Did you check the Eclipse error log? Maybe the bundle is failing to deploy for some reason.
Otherwise, create a Feature and Update Site for your plugin as described here. An update site can either be a remote http server (SVN even), or a local directory. The nice thing is that you'll get versioning and the ability to upgrade and uninstall from inside Eclipse. It also makes things easier once your plugin grows into several plugins because they can be bundled together into a single, versioned feature.