Summary of common installation methods for Eclipse plug-ins

Eclipse installation Plug-in 1. Installing plugins online in eclipse

(1) Open the Eclipse, help->install New software option and click the Add button. As required, fill in the name and location of the plugin (online download link address), click the OK button;

2. Using external references link installation plugin

(1) Download the plugin, the downloaded file only retains feature and plugins two folders.

(2) Create a folder (mine is C:\java programming\eclipse\myplugins). Then create the required plug-in folder under the Mypluins folder to store the link plugin (my Svn\eclipse,eclipse folder must exist, and later install other plugins to create the appropriate Xxx\eclipse folder to put into the plugin). Place the downloaded plugin and feature folders in this directory (mine is C:\java programming\eclipse\myplugins\svn\eclipse).

(3) in the Eclipse installation directory (typically the same directory as Eclipse.exe), create a new Links folder (this folder must be created). Create a new link file (my is Svn.link), the content is path= your plugin path (my is Path:c:\\java programming\\eclipse\\myplugins\svn), Windows needs \ \. Restart Eclipse, plug-in installation is complete. A plugin does not want to use, the corresponding link file will be deleted.

3. Eclipse Market Online Installation

(1) Help, Eclipse MarketPlace

(2) Search Plugin

(3) Install

4. Direct Copy method

Copy the contents of the features and plugins folders in the folder where the plugin is located (assuming the Python plugin) into the features and plugins folder in the Eclipse installation directory, and then restart Eclipse.

Summary of common installation methods for Eclipse plug-ins