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Reputation: 21

Checkstyle plugin is installed not visible in eclipse

I have installed eclipse checkstyle plugin. It installs properly but is not showing up in windows -> preferences. Currently using Mars.2 version. Have tried installing from both the update site http://eclipse-cs.sf.net/update and offline archive zip file and both install smoothly.

I have tried uninstalling, restarting eclipse in admin mode and installing again; and restarting ecplise with -clean -refresh options. None of these solutions have worked for me.

Am I missing something here?

Installation details - eclipse

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2073

Answers (2)

Andreas Sewe
Andreas Sewe

Reputation: 1638

If installation works but a plug-in then doesn’t show up in the UI, it may mean that its OSGi bundles fail to resolve. To check that, launch Eclipse with the -console switch; this opens the OSGi console in the terminal you used to start Eclipse with. Then, type the following:

ss | grep INSTALLED

This way, you will get a list of bundles that are merely INSTALLED but not RESOLVED or STARTING. If a Checkstyle bundles is among them, you have found your problem.

You can obtain further information suitable for a bug report to the Checkstyle developers by typing

diag $NUMBER

where $NUMBER is the number listed in the first column of the INSTALLED bundle.

Upvotes: 0

Paweł Wollny
Paweł Wollny

Reputation: 56

As long as Mars is an old release, there may be some incompatibility problems between it and the plugin. You should check Eclipse Neon, where plugins should work without those issues.

Upvotes: 1

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