How Eclipse installs plug-ins

Eclipse has two ways to install plug-ins, both online and manual, because of the limitations of the network environment and recommended manual installation, let's take a look at the steps that eclipse manually installs the plug-in.

Eclipse Install plugins manually:

　　

The first type: Direct Copy method

Suppose the Eclipse directory is in (D:\eclipse), unzip the eclipse plugin you downloaded or install the Eclipse plugin into the specified directory * * * * folder, open * * folder, in * * The folder contains two folders features and plugins, and then the files in the two folders are copied to features and plugins under the corresponding folder under Eclipse. Because the Eclipse plugin installed by this method is difficult to remove in the future, this method is 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 to:

1. Open the command line to the current Eclipse directory, enter Eclipse-clean, and restart Eclipse, so eclipse will add a new plugin.

2, if the plug-in can not be upgraded, then please delete the Eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.update directory before starting eclipse:)

You can see the newly installed plugins in the Eclipse menu "Help" and "About Eclipse SDK"--"Feature details" and "plug-in details".

The second type: Using the link file method

Assuming the Eclipse directory is (D:\eclipse), under that folder, create a new directory structure (C:\ECLIPSE\PLUGINSECLIPSE\SVN\ECLIPSE),

B. Unzip the SVN plugin you downloaded or install the SVN plugin into the specified directory SVN (D:\SVN) folder, open the SVN folder, and then copy the two folders in the SVN folder features and plugins to the newly created eclipse (C:\eclipse \pluginseclipse\svn\eclipse, so there are two plug-in directories features and plugins in Eclipse.

C. Create a new links (D:\eclipse\links) directory in the Eclipse (D:\eclipse) directory, and create a text file with the link extension in the links directory, such as Svn.link, with the following path=d:/eclipse/ Directory of PLUGINSECLIPSE/SVN or PATH=D:\\ECLIPSE\\PLUGINSECLIPSE\\SVN plugins)

Restarting the Eclipse plug-in will complete the installation.

Note: The path path of the Path= plugin directory in the link file is separated by \ \ or/

Eclipse Online Installation Plugin:

Select Help > Software Updates > Manager Configuration in the Select Add > Extension location to find the directory where you want to install the plugin. Using Eclipse's Help->softwareupdates

Find and install ... search for new features ... Enter the software installation address to install strongly recommend this method, a lot of advantages such as can square

Add Delete, do not write your own link file!

How Eclipse installs plug-ins