exporting installed plugins from eclipse to another

Question

How to export installed plugins from eclipse?

I want to use some of my installed plugins in another eclipse machine.

I don\'t want to download those again.

Answer 1

I’m bringing a really old thread to life here, but there’s a much more comfortable way to export your Eclipse plug-ins and use your setup on another machine now.

On http://profiles.yatta.de you can download the Yatta Launcher for Eclipse, which allows you to export your Eclipse & workspace setup (including your plug-in setup).

Export and installation are pretty straight forward:

1. Download the Launcher from http://profiles.yatta.de and start it
2. The tool will automatically discover your Eclipse installations. Find the one you want to export in the list (they are all named after your workspaces).
3. Click the Upload & Share button (the blue one) on the right of the entry you want to export.

(You won’t actually “share” your Eclipse or workspace with anyone. You’ll just upload a setup file with your metadata that only you have access to yourself. You could share this later, but you can also just keep it as a backup).

This solution does not only allow you to reuse your eclipse plug-in setup, but also your configured Git & task repositories and many other setup-specific settings.