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?
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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.
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2Deleting stuff behind Eclipse's back like that is asking for trouble. It doesn't support that and you very easily can corrupt your Eclipse installation. – E-Riz Aug 03 '15 at 18:22
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True, this action corrupt my kepler installation, I had to install a new version of eclipse – Nir Aug 04 '15 at 06:34
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He asked is there a way to do it manually. Yes, this is the only way and if you know what you are doing it works. – darijan Aug 04 '15 at 07:21
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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.
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1When you're done re-installing any third-party plugins, zip your customized Eclipse so you can install it (unzip it) again if your Eclipse gets corrupted. – Gilbert Le Blanc Aug 03 '15 at 18:32
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If you open a new workspace you can go to Installation History and go back to the previous situation. – Sergio Gabari Nov 04 '21 at 11:25
