Installing a local Eclipse plugin

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I have Eclipse(3.4.2) installed in a central area(read-only), on a Linux machine. There are a lot of pre-installed plug-ins. But I want to add some of mine. I have a .jar file for the plug-in but I don't know where to place/extract it.

go to help>install new software, add local site. – sudmong Jul 08 '11 at 06:47 — sudmong, Jul 08 '11 at 06:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Here are two threads that contain information that should help - 1) Installing Eclipse (3.4+) plugins in a directory other than ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins, 2) Can an extra plugin directory be specified on command line.

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answered Jul 09 '11 at 16:54

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '11 at 20:05

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If you only have a single jar file you will need to add it to the "/dropins" folder that is in the central area. You can not use the "add local site" option unless you have the entire updatesite

answered Jul 08 '11 at 20:05

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Yeah I was fuzzy as well when p2/dropins first showed up. But I downloaded a 3.4.2 SDK zip and saw that it had dropins folder, which makes sense because p2 was introduced in Eclipse 3.4. – gamerson Jul 11 '11 at 12:20

Installing a local Eclipse plugin

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