[jimisola]

Hi!

I’ve seen a lot of topics and information on upgrades from 3.8 to 4.0 with Eclipse 3.0. But, I am using 4.0M3 and Eclipse 3.1 and don’t want to reinstall my whole Eclipse. How do I uninstall MyEclipse 4.0M3? I’ve been looking under Help -> Software Updates -> Manage Configurations, but as far as I can see I can only disable features/plugins not remove them.

I simply just can’t remove the directory containing MyEclipse data since I have other plugins in there as well.

Hoping for a quick answer.

[Riyad Kalla]

jimisola,
You touched on exactly the steps you need to do:

1) Disable MyEclipse and click NO to the restart question and shut it down.
2) Run the uninstaller and just remove the MyEclipse dir. YOu mentioned you have other plugins in there as well, but you shouldn’t have any other plugins in there besides the ones MyEclispe put there. You can either erase the dir, or use a different one when installing the new version, just don’t re-use that dir and try and install ontop of the old MyEclipse.
3) Download and run the MyEclipse 4.0.2 installer
4) Edit the shortcut you use to start MyEclipse and add -clean to it.
5) Start it up

[jimisola]

2) I think I did a manual install since can’t write in my original eclipse install location. The manual uninstall instructions says to remove both the MyEclipse directory and the configuration directory. However, my setup is different due to our multi-user environment where the original Eclipse install directory is read-only. I have these two install locations:
i. /usr/local/tools/eclipse/<eclipse version> (for Eclipse itself and Perforce plugin, P4WSAD, which all our developers use)
ii. home/jimisola/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.0/eclipse (for MyEclipse, VE, TPTP etc)

So, I guess that I have to disable all my plugins and remove them remove them all MyEclipse, VE, TPTP etc for upgrade/reinstall? If I use the installer willl I:

1) be able to use the directory structure I have about with MyEclipse outside of my original Eclipse install dir?
2) will I be able to uninstall MyEclipse without manually deleting directories etc in the future?

Regards,
Jimisola

[Riyad Kalla]

Jimisola,
1) MyEclipse should never be installed under your Eclipse directory, it is an extension, not a normal plugin that you would typically drop in. So I believe the answer is “yes, it’s the onlly way.”

2) The uninstaller will erase the directory for you, however I don’t know if it deletes the individual plugins or if it just toasts the whole directory, in which case if you are performing customizations to the install dir, they may be lost during an uninstall.

[jimisola]

@support-rkalla wrote:

Jimisola,
2) The uninstaller will erase the directory for you, however I don’t know if it deletes the individual plugins or if it just toasts the whole directory, in which case if you are performing customizations to the install dir, they may be lost during an uninstall.

Okay, I see. Would it be too much to ask for you to look up whether the whole directory is deleted or just sub_directories?

[Riyad Kalla]

I just ran the install/uninstall after adding some custom plugins and they were removed, so the installer WILL wipe out the directory that is created by it during the install.

[jimisola]

Okay. Thanks for the information.

Jimisola

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