Uninstall Eclipse under OSX?

Question

I\'m running Eclipse SDK 3.4.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.6.

Every time I try to install something new through \"software updates\", the message \"The software items you selec

Answer 1

Deleting the eclipse folder is equivalent to uninstalling it. In fact, if you don't want to tamper with the existing installation you can create another instance of eclipse and run from the new location.

Answer 2

I just had a similar problem, with the GWT-PlugIn not showing up in the interface. Deleting the eclipse folder did not solve it, GWT was still there! Deleting workspace didn't work! But deleting the .eclipse folder in the home directory did! I'm working under WIndows 7 here, but it should be the same with OSX. But you may have to make the folder visible first. Under linux based system, folders starting with a dot are invisible by default.

This folder was probably the reason I had problems in the first place. If I remember right, I switched from basic Eclipse to EE, but didn't delete this folder.

In my opinion, an uninstall skript would do Eclipse quite good.

Answer 3

Actually Eclipse does create some other files not within it's directory which survive deleting it's directory.

In Snow Leopard, look in your user's account under:

• ~/Library/Caches/org.eclipse.eclipse
• ~/Library/Preferences/org.eclipse.eclipse.plist

Not sure if you need to turn on viewing of hidden files to see those.

Answer 4

In my case with High Sierra, apart from the eclipse folder, I deleted also:

• ~/.eclipse
• ~/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.*
• ~/.p2/pool/.eclipseextension/
• ~/.p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.repository/
• ~/.p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/
• ~/.p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/

Answer 5

Under Lion I deleted the following files and folders:

• eclipse in /Applications (obviously)

• .eclipse in ~

• .eclipse_keyring in ~

• org.eclipse.eclipse in ~/Library/Caches

• org.eclipse.eclipse.savedState in ~/Library/Saved Application State/

Some of them are hidden so you should delete them via Terminal.

Answer 6

1. From terminal, find all eclipse directories with

   sudo find / -iname "Eclipse"

2. Delete those directories with rm command.