How to prevent upgraded Eclipse Oxygen from automatically downgrading

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anothernode picture anothernode · Jun 29, 2017 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I'm trying to Upgrade Eclipse Neon to Oxygen on Windows 10.

I started Eclipse with Administrator privileges and then followed the instructions described in the Eclipse Wiki.

The upgrade runs without errors and prompts for a restart. After the restart, Oxygen comes up without errors and everything seems fine. But when I close Eclipse and start it again, it's back to Neon, duh.

Oh, how I miss Arch Linux's pacman...

Answer

Necreaux picture Necreaux · Jun 30, 2017

I had the same problem. Every restart after the initial upgrade from Neon to Oxygen, I got a "Requirements Update" dialog that prompted me to downgrade some of my components from 4.7 to 4.6 after which point I was back on Neon. Oops. Apparently "Oomph" still thought I should be on Neon and was trying to "fix" things.

I followed the following step outlined here:

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1082235/

open the Installation setup (Navigate -> Open Setup -> Installation) and in the properties view change the product version to say Oxygen

After I did this, Oomph left me on Oxygen after this.

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