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Rebecka
Rebecka

Reputation: 107

"Updates are not permitted" in Eclipse -bug or feature?

This is the situation: I am the admin of a shared installation of Eclipse, and I want regular users (who do not have write-permission to the installation directory) to be able to update existing plugins. If they try this now they get an error saying something like:

"Your original request has been modified. [Plugin name] will be ignored because it is already installed, and updates are not permitted. ..."

It works perfectly well for users to install new plugins, just not update existing ones.

Steps to reproduce:

Perhaps related: If a regular user opens "About Eclipse SDK --> Installation Details --> Installed Software", the "Update" and "Uninstall" buttons are greyed out for every item on the list, though they are not for the admin.

So my questions are: Is this on purpose? and: Can I do something to allow users to update plugins?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3013

Answers (1)

Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 53


I just have the same error. I removed the plugin of the update configuration file (but it's not the best solution)

%eclipse_home%\configuration\org.eclipse.update\platform.xml

This error is easily reproducible, install a plugin directly into the main configuration directory, and do a manual plugin install, like :

%eclipse_home%\eclipse.exe -configuration %eclipse_home%\configuration
Install > New software ...

So, the update will not working if you do that.

To correctly install a plugin, you just have to drop it into the "dropins" dir, like :

%eclipse_home%\configuration\dropins\yourplugindir

Then, the user could use it, or do an update

(init configuration) %eclipse_home%\eclipse.exe -initialize
(refresh workspace) %eclipse_home%\eclipse.exe -clean
%eclipse_home%\eclipse.exe
Install > New software ...

The Eclipse runtime options

Best regards,

Upvotes: 1

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