How Do You Reinstall Installed Eclipse Plugins?

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

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.