Common ways to install Eclipse plug-ins

The Eclipse plugin is installed in the following ways:The first type: Direct Copy methodAssuming that the installation directory for Eclipse is in C:\eclipse, unzip the downloaded Eclipse plugin or install the Eclipse plugin into the specified directory folder, open the installation folder, and the root directory in the installation folder contains two folders features and plugins, respectively. Then the files in the two folders are copied to C:\eclipse under the corresponding folder under the features and plugins, the general plug-in files directly copied into the Eclipse directory is the most direct and the most stupid way!　　Because it can be very difficult to remove these plugins in the future (you can't tell which is which), it's not recommended.　　Note: After extracting the plug-in package directly under the Plugins folder, restarting Eclipse may not load the new plugin.　　　　The workaround is: 1. Open the command line to the current Eclipse directory, enter Eclipse-clean, and restart eclipse so that eclipse will add a new plugin. 2, if the plug-in does not take effect, then the Eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.update directory (this directory will record your plugin and other update history) and then start Eclipse, you can in the Eclipse menu "Help"-- > See the newly installed plugins in the about Eclipse SDK--Feature details and plug-in details. The second type: Using the link file methodA. Assuming that the installation directory for Eclipse is in C:\eclipse, under this folder, create a new directory structure C:\eclipse\PluginsEclipse\jode\eclipse; b. Unzip the downloaded Eclipse plugin or install eclipse Plug-in to the specified directory bb (such as: C:\BB) folder, open the BB folder, and then the BB folder in the two folders features and plugins copy to just new good C:\eclipse\PluginsEclipse\jode\eclipse,　　In this way, there are two plug-in directories features and plugins in Eclipse. C. Create a new links (C:\eclipse\links) directory in the C:\eclipse directory and create a text file with the link extension in the links directory, such as Jode.link, as follows path=c:/eclipse/　　Pluginseclipse/jode or Path=c:\\eclipse\\pluginseclipse\\jode (the plugin's directory), after saving the Eclipse plugin will be installed to complete. Note: The path path of the Path= plugin directory in the link file is separated by \ \ or/

/eclipse/ links/ jode.link webtools.link updatemanager.link

/eclipse/links/jode.link Webtools.link Updatemanager.link ... Newly installed plugins can be found in the Eclipse menu "Help" and "Abouteclipse SDK"-"Feature Details" and "plug-in details". Third: Install using Eclipse's own graphical interfaceSelect Help > Software Updates > Manager Configuration, then add > Extension location to find the directory where you want to install the plugin. Use Eclipse's help->softwareupdates->find and install ... search for new features ... Enter the software installation address to install strongly recommend this method, many advantages such as can be easily added to delete, do not write your own link file! (Note: This installation even if you do not download the installation package can also be downloaded from the remote, as long as the link can be, but the domestic download a lot of plug-ins because the network is slow, or can not be downloaded. Note: The directory structure of the Eclipse plugin

/eclipse-plugins/ Eclipse/ . Eclipseextension features/ plugins/

The directory referred to in the 2.3 method refers to the "Eclipse" directory, and if you use the 3rd method, you must have a file in the Eclipse directory. Eclipseextension, if the downloaded plugin does not have this file,

Then just do it in the Eclipse installation directory, just copy the file, there is only such a file, the content is useless, mainly some version information. For example:

Id=org.eclipse.platform name=Eclipse platformversion=3.1.1ID=org.eclipse.platform name=eclipse Platform version=3.1.1

Fourth: Install plug-ins using DropinsStarting with Eclipse3.5, there is a dropins directory in the installation directory. Simply unzip the plugin and drag it to the directory to install the plugin. For example, install the SVN plugin subclipse-1.8.16.zip, only need the following three steps: 1, using WinRAR and other compression software to extract the compressed package to a folder, such as subclipse-1.8.16 2, move this directory/　　Copy to Dropins directory 3 under the Eclipse installation directory and restart Eclipse. Because this kind of installation can install different plug-ins in different directories, and do not bother to write configuration files, so it is very convenient to manage, recommended to use.

Common ways to install Eclipse plug-ins