Reputation: 1724
I have installed a new plugin for eclipse and since then when i opened eclipse after a few seconds it's not responding. Is there a possible way to get rid of this plugin without open eclipse?
Thanks,
Upvotes: 0
Views: 2265
Reputation: 1091
As described here, you could use Eclipse from the command line with the Eclipse Directory and -uninstallIU
option.
For example,
eclipse -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -uninstallIU org.junit
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 9775
Open Eclipse installation folder, find plugins folder, find the plugin and delete it manually. Then do the same in features folder.
Backup everything before, because you might delete something that belongs to Eclipse. This will sometimes require that you run eclipse -clean from your command line/terminal to truly get rid of the plugin.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 32895
The p2 Director application can do it, but it's not trivial. It's documented (somewhat) at http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_director.html
Another option is to try opening on a brand new workspace; sometimes it's the workspace that causes a problem, not a plug-in by itself.
Final option is to just delete your Eclipse installation (not your workspace), and re-extract a clean copy. Since Eclipse "installation" is just a zip/tar extraction, it's not hard to do. You would just need to re-install any third-party plugins that you already had and wanted to keep.
Upvotes: 2