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I’m using a Windows 7 Enterprise edition 64 bit, the firewall means certain update sites are not directly accessible and my standard user is not a local admin.
How do you install the Groovy and Grails plugins for STS?
Update (July 2012): There is now a preconfigured version of STS availabe which comes with Groovy and Grails, simply install or unzip the package and Groovy, Grails and their plugins are pre-installed and working. This is available on the STS site here (eg Groovy/Grails Tool Suite version 3.0.0.M3 zip file is here
I originally had a number of problems with admin/access rights and the inline STS extensions update site getting blocked by the firewall. I thought installing STS as a local admin would help things but this actually made it worse and caused problems when running STS from a normal user account later. Here are the final steps needed…
User Access Issues:
Create a directory eg c:\devtools
Download/Firewall Issues:
The following files can be downloaded from a separate computer and moved across so the developer PC doesn’t require direct internet access