Where are Eclipse plugins stored?
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If you install plugins with Eclipse's plugin manager, you are advised to launch Eclipse as root: this way the plugins will be installed in /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/ ; if you installed them as normal user, they would be stored in a version-dependent folder inside ~/.
Keeping this in consideration, where are Eclipse plugins installed?
One way of finding out is to select Help > About Eclipse Platform >. From this dialog, click Plug-in Details to get a list of all installed plug-ins, along with vendor and version information.
- In Eclipse, go to Help > Install New Software.
- Press the Add button.
- In the Add Repository window, press the Archive button to open a file browser.
- In the file browser, select the Eclipse plugin file that you downloaded, as shown in Figure 2-2.
In this way, where are Eclipse settings stored?
The preferences are stored in prefs files in the workspace at . metadata/. plugins/org. eclipse.
To open plugins in your Eclipse projects, you import them into the project from their location on your hard drive or an Eclipse platform.
- Click the "File" menu and select "Import."
- Click "Plug-in Development" and "Plug-ins."