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Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850961]

Wed, 23 March 2022 14:31

Jozef Vandenmooter

Messages: 9
Registered: March 2022

Junior Member

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

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Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850962 is a reply to message #1850961]

Wed, 23 March 2022 14:32

Nitin Dahyabhai

Messages: 4267
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Various plug-ins like what?

Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

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Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850963 is a reply to message #1850962]

Wed, 23 March 2022 14:51

Jozef Vandenmooter

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Registered: March 2022

Junior Member

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.

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Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850968 is a reply to message #1850963]

Wed, 23 March 2022 15:45

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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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.)

Ed Merks
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Re: Prevent automatic install of plugins [message #1850969 is a reply to message #1850968]

Wed, 23 March 2022 16:37

Jozef Vandenmooter

Messages: 9
Registered: March 2022

Junior Member

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.