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Removing Plugins [message #93620]

Wed, 10 August 2005 02:47

Eclipse User

How do I remove plugins?
I've searched over the preference menu, and tried help. But I can't
find any reference to it

Re: Removing Plugins [message #93649 is a reply to message #93620]

Wed, 10 August 2005 05:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sportboy02.software.nju.edu.cn

Alan Chandler wrote:
> How do I remove plugins?
> I've searched over the preference menu, and tried help. But I can't
> find any reference to it

It depends on how you have installed these plug-ins?
If you just unzipped them and simply copied them in to eclipse home
directory, you need to delete them from
/plugins and /features manually.

Jason

Re: Removing Plugins [message #93766 is a reply to message #93649]

Wed, 10 August 2005 15:18

Eclipse User

Re: Removing Plugins [message #93796 is a reply to message #93766]

Wed, 10 August 2005 20:32

Eclipse User

Re: Removing Plugins [message #93841 is a reply to message #93796]

Thu, 11 August 2005 02:26

Eclipse User

Jason wrote:
> Alan Chandler wrote:
>
>>> Alan Chandler wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do I remove plugins?
>>>> I've searched over the preference menu, and tried help. But I can't
....

>>
>> No I installed them through Help/Software Updates menu
>>
>> But I guess you can just remove them manually anyway?
>
>
> In that case, you may find the plug-ins you have installed through
> Help->Software Updates->Manage Configuration
> where you can uninstall them.

That was my problem, it wasn't there ('it' was the Tomcat Plugin from
Sysdeo), but there was still the Tomcat menu.

I was wanting to load up wtp and use its ability to operate with Tomcat.

I tried the manual stuff but failed. In the end it was easier to blow
the complete eclipse configuration away and install the wtp all-in-one tar.

Thanks for your help anyway

Re: Removing Plugins [message #94109 is a reply to message #93649]

Fri, 12 August 2005 02:01

Eclipse User

Jason wrote:
> Alan Chandler wrote:
>
>> How do I remove plugins?
>> I've searched over the preference menu, and tried help. But I can't
>> find any reference to it
>
>
> It depends on how you have installed these plug-ins?
> If you just unzipped them and simply copied them in to eclipse home
> directory, you need to delete them from
> /plugins and /features manually.
>

It turns out that there is a gotcha with this.

within your workspace there is a directory .metadata/.plugins, and in
there are a whole load of configuration parameters that get carried
forward into any new configuration of eclipse that you have. Those
related to the plugins that you have used also need to be removed.

I have just been struggling for a few days with tomcat parameters that
my project continually was trying to use that were no longer relevant
(because I had removed the tomcat configuration and replaced it with
another one).

Re: Removing Plugins [message #94293 is a reply to message #94109]

Fri, 12 August 2005 07:53

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sportboy02.software.nju.edu.cn

Alan Chandler wrote:
> Jason wrote:
>
>> Alan Chandler wrote:
>>
>>> How do I remove plugins?
>>> I've searched over the preference menu, and tried help. But I can't
>>> find any reference to it
>>
>>
>>
>> It depends on how you have installed these plug-ins?
>> If you just unzipped them and simply copied them in to eclipse home
>> directory, you need to delete them from
>> /plugins and /features manually.
>>
>
>
> It turns out that there is a gotcha with this.
>
> within your workspace there is a directory .metadata/.plugins, and in
> there are a whole load of configuration parameters that get carried
> forward into any new configuration of eclipse that you have. Those
> related to the plugins that you have used also need to be removed.
>
> I have just been struggling for a few days with tomcat parameters that
> my project continually was trying to use that were no longer relevant
> (because I had removed the tomcat configuration and replaced it with
> another one).

After you manually removed the plug-ins, have you ever try to start up
eclipse with the -clean parameter?

Re: Removing Plugins [message #94483 is a reply to message #94293]

Fri, 12 August 2005 16:39

Eclipse User

Jason wrote:
> Alan Chandler wrote:
....
>>
>> It turns out that there is a gotcha with this.
>>
>> within your workspace there is a directory .metadata/.plugins, and in
>> there are a whole load of configuration parameters that get carried
>> forward into any new configuration of eclipse that you have. Those
>> related to the plugins that you have used also need to be removed.
>>
>> I have just been struggling for a few days with tomcat parameters that
>> my project continually was trying to use that were no longer relevant
>> (because I had removed the tomcat configuration and replaced it with
>> another one).
>
>
> After you manually removed the plug-ins, have you ever try to start up
> eclipse with the -clean parameter?

Yes - but it didn't clean out those parameters.

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