Correct way to remove plugin from Eclipse

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sergionni picture sergionni · May 30, 2011 · Viewed 110.4k times · Source

Last times, I'm facing problem of removing plugins from Eclipse.

symptoms:

1. if removing thru already installed menu,that can't reinstall correctly and have several perspectives - e.g. for SQL Explorer. (in Open Perspective menu)

2. if removing thru file system - manually from plugins directory,that I'm not certain about what .jars should I remove

The question is, what are the steps that guarantee correct full removing of plugin and what is better, manual or automatic removing?

Share,please,your experience.

Answer

Sandman picture Sandman · May 30, 2011

Using the menus, open

  • Help | About Eclipse IDE | Installation details (in newer versions),
  • Help | Installation Details (in older versions), or
  • Help | About Eclipse | Installation details (in even older versions).

In the "Installed software" tab click on the software that you wish to uninstall, then click the "Uninstall..." button below.

If you installed the plug-in by dropping into the dropins folder, then just delete it from the dropins folder and restart Eclipse.

See the answer of @Cogentleman for more recent versions of Eclipse.

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