4.4.1. Installing a new Plugin¶

4.4.1.1. Eclipse Market Place¶

From within the Eclipse GUI, this is the best way to install/update a plugin.

Got to Help → Eclipse Marketplace

You will be taken to nice window to choose a variety of Eclipse Plugins

Eclipse market place UI to choose and install a plugin

4.4.1.2. Eclipse Update Site¶

This is the old way of installing a new plugin via Eclipse GUI.

1. Press Help → Install New Software

2. Press Add

3. Give Name and Location of the Repository URL

   Every Plugin has a repository URL. This is also called the Update URL

   e.g. http://jupiter-eclipse-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/site/ is the update URL of Jupiter Eclipse Plugin [1]

4. Eclipse would download information from the Repository URL.

5. Select the relevant Plug-ins

6. Press Next

7. Accept the license agreement and press Next

8. Eclipse would ask to restart... Please agree

9. Now the plug-in would be available with your Eclipse installation

Steps similar to above are shown in Installing CDT

4.4.1.3. Via Dropins (Dirty Way)¶

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started demonstrates ways to install a new plug-in to Eclipse.

It is as easy as copy files to a specific folder and re-starting Eclipse:

eclipse/
        dropins/
                emf/
                        eclipse/
                                features/
                                plugins/
                gef/
                        eclipse/
                                features/
                                plugins/
                ... etc...