Installing plugins for Eclipse offline

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Chris picture Chris · Jul 25, 2016 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I want to install e(fx)clipse for Eclipse Neon, however eclipse is running on a machine that does not have internet access. Is there a way I can manually download a plugin and install it to eclipse?

To clarify: I have access to the internet on another machine that I can use to transfer files onto the machine with Eclipse.

Answer

user43968 picture user43968 · Jul 25, 2016

you can download the update-site as a zip by modifying the update site adress last part by site_assembly.zip

example : Install URL becomes,

http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-released/2.4.0/pluginName
http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-released/2.4.0/pluginName_assembly.zip

change version number if you need an other one

and then use this zip to install your plug-in (Help > Install New Software > Add) as you do but instead of adding an update site url select zip and give the zip you download see this answer part 2 for screenshot :

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