Uninstall plugins eclipse

Another multi tabbed form opens up Anyone keeping count of the number of windows opened already. This is the 3rd window by now, including the parent editor window which shows all the installed plugins.

If you select any of the installed plugins, a button to "uninstall" becomes available. Click that and you should be able to un-install and after a restart everything should be fine. My interest in software and IT has always been much more than a 9 to 5 job and I am sure there is a huge population that it holds equally true for.

I have always wanted software to be efficient and beautiful apart from doing it's job. However, it took an excellent session on usability which I joined only with casual curiosity but left with renewed interest in the subject and admiration for David Travis who delivered the course to get me to start looking at all software with an "user's" perspective.

And I was surprised with what I found and how it changed my coding. Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own. Java Partner Resources. Those errors are innocuous. Once you have closed and reopened the document, the problem should not occur anymore.

Later, you can re-enable a plugin if you need it. To re-enable a plugin, execute the following steps: Open the Product Configuration dialog, as described in the previous section, Show the disabled plugins by pushing the "Show Disabled Features" button: Find the plugin that you want to enable, by expanding the tree on the left pane, as described in the previous section, Right-click on the disabled item and select Ensable , Select Yes in the confirmation dialog, Select Yes in the dialog asking you to restart Eclipse.

However, it is a good idea to disable the plugins before uninstalling them. Uninstalling a distribution does not remove the plugins that you have added to it. You can remove those plugins as described in the previous section. Hosted by. News Distributions Plugins Help About. Home » Help » Managing and Uninstalling plugins.

Managing and Uninstalling plugins This document explains you how to verify which plugins are installed on your machine, and how to disable or uninstall plugins that you are not using. I would like to propose my solution,that worked for me. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. But Sandmans solution is the correct one for just a single feature Luckily I didn't remove the older Eclipse.

Don't understand the downvotes on this answer though. You should consider accepting the real answer, while keeping this as a side one — Andrea Ligios. Cogentleman Cogentleman 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges.

I don't know why this needs to be different for every. Bumptious Q Bangwhistle Bumptious Q Bangwhistle 4, 2 2 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges.

Select the plugin to Uninstall, and disable it with the task shown in the right window. There are few things to keep in mind: ' Uninstalling ' a feature, using the steps above, disable the feature or plug-in. From the FAQ of Eclipse: Be very cautious as to which files you delete, and always have a backup of your Eclipse directory. Note that when manually removing plugins as described above, it is likely that some metadata will still cached by Eclipse.

This can lead to problems later on. Running Eclipse with the -clean option may help with that, as it causes Eclipse to clean the cached metadata. See the Running Eclipse help page for details about this option. Lenzman Lenzman 4 4 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Gerold Broser Krishna Roy Krishna Roy 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. That is not the correct way. It might work, but is not the way you are supposed to do it since Eclipse manages its plugins.

So, it's not Tayfun to blame, it's Eclipse. However, removing the JARs completely isn't the best decision. It's better to just move them to another dir. Might help or not. For some 'Eclipse Marketplace' plugins Uninstall may not work. This will fix most of the plugin problems. Gopinathsgn Gopinathsgn 51 3 3 bronze badges. Mistakes like typos might be in the following, too.

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