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Eclipse Installer Question [message #1715916] Fri, 27 November 2015 16:05 Go to next message
Williams Mising name is currently offline Williams Mising nameFriend
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I decide to install Eclipse Mars and find the Eclipse Installer available for use. After running it, I first chose the Java Developers and it worked fine and a new icon was created in the desktop. Then, I want to install Eclipse Modeling Tool and run the Eclipse Installer again. After choosing the Eclipse Modeling Tool, it seems that another Eclipse Modeling Mars icon is created. Both eclipses are in different folders. Do they have any relation? If I have a new plugin to be installed such as GMF, where should I put the GMF eclipse's folder? What is the general rule to install any other third party plugin? I had some trouble to migrate different versions of a plugin within Eclipse before and not sure whether the installer solved the problem or not.
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Re: Eclipse Installer Question [message #1715919 is a reply to message #1715916] Fri, 27 November 2015 17:02 Go to previous message
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Am 27.11.2015 um 17:05 schrieb Williams Mising name:
> I decide to install Eclipse Mars and find the Eclipse Installer available for use. After running it, I first chose the
> Java Developers and it worked fine and a new icon was created in the desktop. Then, I want to install Eclipse Modeling
> Tool and run the Eclipse Installer again. After choosing the Eclipse Modeling Tool, it seems that another Eclipse
> Modeling Mars icon is created. Both eclipses are in different folders.
Yes, that's what you've told the installer to do, install two Eclipse IDEs, one for Java and one for Modeling.

> Do they have any relation?
If you used the installer's default option for the shared bundle pool your two installation have no plugins/features/p2
folders. These are now shared through the ${user.home}/.p2 folder.

> If I have a new plugin to be installed such as GMF, where should I put the GMF eclipse's folder?
You should not install plugins by adding disk folders or files manually. See below...

> What is the general rule to install any other third party plugin?
Please read http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftasks-124.htm for an
intro to software installation within your IDE.

> I had some trouble to migrate different versions of a plugin within Eclipse before and not sure whether the installer
> solved the problem or not.
It's unlikely that the installer solves incompatibility problems in other plugins. Please open separate forum threads
for specific migration problems.

Cheers
/Eike

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