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Vanessa Deagan
Vanessa Deagan

Reputation: 427

How to completely remove installation of Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers

I installed Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (on Linux) and then messed around with a lot of settings. For example, I installed an add-on to download and install color themes.

I want to completely remove the installation so I can install from scratch. To do this, I'm removing the following:

$ rm -rf /home/van/eclipse # <-- Eclipse installation directory.
$ rm -rf /home/van/.eclipse
$ rm -rf /home/van/eclipse_workspace

However, when I re-install using:

$ tar -zxvf eclipse-cpp-2019-12-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz -C /home/van/eclipse

and then start Eclipse, the previously installed color theme is still set, indicating there's another settings/add-ons directory somewhere that is still being used.

What other directories does Eclipse use to store add-ons/settings/configs?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 410

Answers (1)

andrej
andrej

Reputation: 4753

I've got also ~/.cache/Eclipse/ folder here. Also there could be some data from that addon - try searching your home folder for addon's name.

Upvotes: 1

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