I want to use a different installation of the Eclipse IDE, and drop into it some plugins and features that I already downloaded and install on a different instance of Eclipse. How can I do that? AFAIK, it's not as plain as copying the jar files, because Eclipse keeps some meta-data somewhere.
If it matters, the OS is Ubuntu Linux.
The convention is for the meta-data for plugins to be kept in workspace/.metadata/.plugins/ So just copy those to the workspace for the new install. Or just copy the entire workspace if you like.
You can try adding the old eclipse as a repository for install new software. The directory you want is OLD_ECLIPSE/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/profileRegistry/SDKProfile.profile/
If you uncheck "group items by category" you should see the list of features you installed in your OLD_ECLIPSE.
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I'm developing an eclipse plugin and in order to test it I have to install it into my eclipse application regularly. However as I dont't want to change the version of my plugin every time I want to test a new feature I always uninstalled the plugin from within eclipse and afterwards I'd go to the eclipse folder and delete my plugin out of the plugins folder (and delete the respective entries in the eclipse XML-files).
That worked great in windows but I have recently switched to Linux (Mint) and I just found out that my plugin is no longer located in the plugins folder inside the eclipse program directory. Therefore I can't really delete the old plugin whcih then prevents the new version of the plugin from installing properly.
Does anyone have an idea about where eclipse copies the installed plugin or a differerent approch to actually completely uninstall (delete) an installed eclipse plugin?
Okay after searching through my whole filesystem I found it out myself.
Eclipse has a hidden folder in the home directory named .eclipse in which each installed eclipse version has it's sub-directory and in there there is also a plugins and a features folder that then contain the externally installed plugins and features.
It also contains the corresponding artifacts.xml.
I'm not sure whether this behaviour is specific to the Linux Mint OS or rather a new "feature" of Eclipse Neon but if anyone is having the same problem that's were I found it.
Help -> Installation Detail.
Then click the plugin you want removed then press "Uninstall...".
Note: there is a "Plug-ins" tab in the Installation Detail dialog. This is misleading; you are not to click it.
Ps. It might be easier to test the plugin, during development, on a run-time workbench.
Is there a way to use fastreport.net in shared iis host with out fastreport installation. and using only dlls.
Regards
I downloaded and installed the latest version. Then, i copied these DLLs to my project direcotry and referenced them:
FastReport.dll
These two, you only need, when you use the "ShowReport" (preview window).
FastReport.Bars.dll
FastReport.Editor.dll
When you only want to create reports and save/export them, FastReport.dll would be enough.
In an existing Eclipse project, I created a new package (using Eclipse in Linux) and checked it into source control (we use Subversion).
Another user got the new files and can see them in Eclipse on Windows, but not in Linux. The new files are there, just not visible in Eclipse.
I was thinking it might be an Eclipse setting that only lets him see some file types - there are .feature and .java files - but there are pre-existing .java files that he does see in Eclipse.
Any clue what might be causing this?
I have multiple eclipse SDKs installed on my linux notebook. They are in different directories and I do not remember which is the last one I installed. The command 'which eclipse' gets me /usr/bin/eclipse. /usr/bin/eclipse is a shell script that (among other things) sets ECLIPSE=/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse. /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse is a real executable (not a link) that was copied in from elsewhere.
The command 'eclipse' brings up a functioning eclipse. My question is: If I want to expand the capabilities of this eclipse, which SDK do I need to make changes to - ie which SDK do I insert add-ons? That is, given an executing eclipse, how do I find the sdk?
On the Help > About Eclipse dialog click Installation Details for lots of details about the installation. The Configuration tab contains the paths of what is being used.
Adding to Eclipse is generally done using Help > Install New Software and you don't normally need to know where the Eclipse install is for this!
I'm running Eclipse (versions 3.6 and 3.5) on Ubuntu and I'm having trouble installing Eclipse plugins.
There is an easy way to install eclipse plugins in Eclipse, but this doesn't work for me on Ubuntu! This way only works properly under Windows and Mac OSX.
Just like in the tutorial, I create a folder inside my eclipse SDK folder that is named Links.
In this folder, I create a file eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk.lnk or eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk.link that contains this line:
path=/home/taher/opt/eclipse/Third-party-eclipse-links/eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk
and save it, but when I start Eclipse doesn't recognize the plugin!
How can I resolve this problem?
With Eclipse Galileo (3.5) or Helios (3.6), I would rather recommend an external directory called 'mydropins' (for instance), which you can reference from your eclipse.ini, with the option:
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=C:/Prog/Java/eclipse_addons
This is called a shared dropins folder.
See in this SO answer an example of plugin deployment in this shared dropins folder.
(Your link refers to the previous provisioning mechanism, pre-p2.
P2 is the new provisioning system introduced late in Eclipse3.4, refined (debugged?) in eclipse 3.5 and 3.6.
See the supported dropins formats to check how you can organize your own personal dropins folder (that you can reuse between several eclipse installations)
You said you are using:
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/home/taher/opt/eclipse/Third-party-eclipse-links
That means, under /home/taher/opt/eclipse/Third-party-eclipse-links, you:
won't have any .link file
will copy:
eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk
eclipse
features
plugins
Note: the structure within eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk should be the one describe above, for p2 to pick it up.