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Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850961] Wed, 23 March 2022 10:31 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Hi,

Probably a stupid question, but I have turned off automatic updates and Eclipse still installs various plugins that I do not want/need behind my back. How do I prevent this from happening?

Eclipse version is 2020-06 (4.16.0)

Thanks,

Jozef
Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850962 is a reply to message #1850961] Wed, 23 March 2022 10:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Various plug-ins like what?
Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850963 is a reply to message #1850962] Wed, 23 March 2022 10:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Nitin Dahyabhai wrote on Wed, 23 March 2022 14:32
Various plug-ins like what?


I was referring to the Marketplace plugins.

Installing certain plugins automatically installs other plugins, which is normal. For example, installing the Bash Editor 2.8.0 plugin also installs the TM Terminal 9.11 plugin.

However, some plugins are not related to any installs. For example, I came in one morning and discovered Eclipse had installed the Buildship Gradle Integration 3.0 and and Wild Web Developer plugins.
Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850968 is a reply to message #1850963] Wed, 23 March 2022 11:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Both buildship and wild web are part of several of the products/packages, including the Java and JEE IDEs. Is that what you have installed? Did you uninstall these and they came back? Which product exactly did you install? (See the description in Help -> About Eclipse IDE to answer that question.)
Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850969 is a reply to message #1850968] Wed, 23 March 2022 12:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Help -> About Eclipse IDE says:
Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers (includes Incubating components)
Version: 2020-06 (4.16.0)
Build id: 20200615-1200

The reason I posted this question is that I'm seeing an error reported by one of the plugins that requires Java 11 to be installed. We are running Java 8 still, and cannot update any plugins to Java 11, which is why automatic updates is turned off.
Is there a way to determine which plugin is reporting this error? I attached it here.
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Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850974 is a reply to message #1850969] Wed, 23 March 2022 13:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Well, org.eclipse.wst.wsdl.validation only required Java 11 as of 2021-03, so you have a mix of feature versions
installed somehow.
Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850987 is a reply to message #1850974] Thu, 24 March 2022 02:05 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
The Error Log view will show which plugin fail to start because they need Java 11. This information is stored in <workspace>/.metadata/.log.
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