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How do I install a custom plugin in Eclipse Ganymede?

We have a custom plugin. That is, the company I work for developed it in-house. I would like to install it as an available plugin in Eclipse Ganymede. How to do it?

From what I can understand, Eclipse software installation only supports installing from Eclipse software update sites.

I went to Help -> Install New Software ... -> Add -> Local ... to navigate to the plugin folder. Although the dialog allows me to add the directory as an update site, it doesn't work. He expects this directory to become a local Eclipse update site (I think). I get an error

No repository found at file:/G:/TOOLS/...

Then I just copied the plug-in to the plug-in directory in my Eclipse installation. It didn't work either. I also tried to copy it to the dropins directory. No cubes.

Can anyone enlighten me on how to install a plugin that is not on the "update" site?

Thanks in advance....

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Typically an Eclipse plug-in zipped is installed by extracting it into the Eclipse installation directory (or directory plugins

depending on how it is packed, since it can also extract files in a directory features

).



Then restart Eclipse with the - clean option .

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Have you checked the Eclipse error log? The package may not work for some reason.



Otherwise, create a Feature and Update site for your plugin as described here . The update site can be either a remote http server (even SVN) or a local directory. It's nice that you get the version and the ability to update and uninstall from Eclipse. It also makes things easier when your plugin turns into multiple plugins, because they can be merged into one version with a version.

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