Introduction to the Eclipse installation plugin method

There are several common ways that Eclipse installs plug-ins:

1. Online Installation

Open Eclipse, select "Help"-"Install New software ..."-and "Add", enter the name information and URL information, click "OK".

2. Offline installation package Installation

Open Eclipse, select "Help"-"Install New software ..."-and "Add", enter the name information, click "Archive", select the downloaded plug-in package.

3. Copy plug-in directory Installation

Unzip the downloaded plug-in package and copy the "features" and "plugins" directories to the Eclipse directory.

4. Install using the link file

Mode 1, Mode 2 and Mode 3 installation, with the increase in use of plug-ins, resulting in eclipse is too bloated and not easy to manage, can be installed in the following ways:

(1) Create the Links folder in the installation directory of Eclipse.

(2) in the links directory, create a file with the suffix named. Link to install the Pydev plug-in as an example, the file name is Pydev520.link (the filename in front of the following name is arbitrary), the file content is:

Path=e:\\dell\\64bit\\pydev 5.2.0

where "E:\\dell\\64bit\\pydev 5.2.0" is the path to be installed after the PyDev plugin is unzipped.

After you launch Eclipse, choose Window---Preferences, and you'll see the configuration entries for the Pydev plugin in the pop-up configuration box.

Plugins installed through Mode 4, the plugin content will not be copied to the Eclipse installation directory, just generate the plug-in path configuration file, uninstall plug-in is also very convenient.

Uninstall method:

1. Close the Eclipse tool.

2. Delete the. link file for the plug-in in the links directory.

3. Open the Configuratioin\org.eclipse.update\platform.xml file in the Eclipse installation directory to find the site configuration entry information for the plugin and delete the configuration entry.

4. In the Eclipse installation directory Configuration\org.eclipse.osgi subdirectory, search for the plugin's configuration directory according to the keyword and remove the configuration directory, then rerun the Eclipse tool.

Note: Windows7 system search for file content, may appear to search for the situation, because the search by default search by file name, no search to the file content, the workaround:

Introduction to the Eclipse installation plugin method