How to remove old versions of Eclipse plugins?

by

I use the following command:

eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.garbagecollector.application -profile epp.package.jee

Notes:

  1. This is documented in Equinox/p2/FAQ, see “Why aren’t bundles being removed when their associated feature has been removed?”

    The FAQ answer references an Eclipse Community Forum thread “Plug-in jar remains after feature uninstall” (June 2010) as the origin for this recipe.

    The recipe is still valid nowadays, with Eclipse 4.8 Photon.

  2. The -profile argument depends on what packaging of Eclipse IDE you are using. The above one (epp.package.jee) is for “Eclipse for Java EE Developers”. I found it in the file configuration/config.ini. The relevant line there is the following:

    eclipse.p2.profile=epp.package.jee

Leave a Comment

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)