Question

How do you ‘remove’ or ‘copy’ an eclipse plugin from one eclipse install to another? E.g. I have two installs of eclipse, one of which has a plugin installed that I don’t have an installer for nor is it readily available online. Is it possible to get this plugin installed on my other version of eclipse? If so, how?

Also, does it matter if my two versions of eclipse are really different versions, i.e. one is 3.4 and the other is 3.3 or 3.2?

Answer 1

As mentioned in my answer to your last question, and since (again) the chosen answer is very poor on the specifics, a plugin lives in:

• for eclipse previous to 3.4 (3.2, 3.3)

  • eclipse/plugins and eclipse/features

  • any other directory provided you define a link by creating a foo.link file inside the links directory of an eclipse installation (you might have to create the [eclipse]\links directory) containing:

    path=C:/eclipse/extensions/foobar

With references the foobar plugins, with the following subdirectories:

C:/eclipse/extensions/foobar/eclipse/plugins C:/eclipse/extensions/foobar/eclipse/features 

• for eclipse3.4 and 3.5, with p2 mechanism:
  • by putting your plugin in the dropins directory (like dropins/foobar/eclipse/plugins and dropins/foobar/eclipse/features, or foobar.zip, with the zip containing eclipse/plugins and eclipse/features)

So you should look for a plugin in those directories, and copy them into into the appropriate plugin directory for completing the installation.