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Asked: 2026-05-11T09:37:39+00:00

In the past I have had problems upgrading from release to release of Eclipse.

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In the past I have had problems upgrading from release to release of Eclipse. I was wondering how the Eclipse users on StackOverflow dealt with upgrading from release to release of Eclipse.

  • Is using a Distro the solution?
  • Staying on a past release point until you are forced forward, a good idea?

Lately I have just reloaded from scratch; renaming my root Eclipse dir and downloaded the latest release, plus an update cycle. I have only lost my workspaces (no code was lost) once using this method.

Thanks in advance

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  1. I usually just rename the old one to something like eclipse3.3 and install the new one in the same place. Since a lot of plugins usually break with a new version anyway, in my experience, I find that to do this and then reinstall my plugins is the easiest solution. There are rarely any problems with the workspace itself.

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