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I installed Eclipse Neon 4.6 on my linux (Mint) OS. After unsuccessfully trying to install STS (Spring), I uninstalled and reinstalled using the update site - http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.6/.

Now, when I launch eclipse, it is prompting a dialog that reads "you are trying to generate an spring project but you do not have any Spring roo distribution installed..."

When I click OK, it opens another dialog where it is asking me to point to a Roo installation.

How do I get rid of this so that I can get into Eclipse to install Roo using the marketplace or update site? Has anyone else encountered this problem before?

Please help. Thanks

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  • If you're not planning to use Spring Roo support STS I'd suggest you uninstall Roo STS feature. See this to see how to uninstall an eclipse feature https://codeyarns.com/2014/11/07/how-to-remove-feature-or-plugin-in-eclipse/ – aboyko Sep 03 '16 at 00:01

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I installed some default plugins and then the roo plugin kept asking for configuration and couldn't uninstall it from the help menu (because roo was always prompting the configuration menu).

I followed the answer provided here:

$ eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -listInstalledRoots | grep roo
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.roo.feature.feature.group/3.8.3.201612191259-RELEASE
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.roo.feature.source.feature.group/3.8.3.201612191259-RELEASE

$ eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -uninstallIU org.springframework.ide.eclipse.roo.feature.feature.group/3.8.3.201612191259-RELEASE
$ eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -uninstallIU org.springframework.ide.eclipse.roo.feature.source.feature.group/3.8.3.201612191259-RELEASE
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According to the Roo documentation, you download Roo and then point STS to wherever you installed (extracted) it. My understanding is that Roo operates in conjunction with the IDE, but is a standalone tool.

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