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For questions about Eclipse Oomph (a.k.a Eclipse Installer) which is an open source project (EPL license) related to the Eclipse IDE. It automates the installation and update of Eclipse IDE.

Eclipse Oomph is an open source project (EPL license) related to the Eclipse IDE. It automates the installation and update of Eclipse IDE.

It is the technology behind the Eclipse Installer introduced with the Mars release (June 2015) of Eclipse.

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Java Eclipse Installation Difficulties

My Eclipse was running slow, so I decided to uninstall and reinstall it. It seems that Eclipse only installs files into my Users directory, so I just deleted them for my uninstall. If there is a cleaner uninstall that would remedy the following…
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Is there a way how NOT share plugins between installations of Eclipse?

I used to have several Eclipse installations, and workspaces, with optimized set of plugins for a particular job - for PDE development, for Scala, for experimental plugins, modeling tools, JBoss and Spring integration etc. I like the convenience…
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Eclipse Oxygen - How can I download remote preference and overwrite local settings?

I think the documentation is confusing. I have my working environment preferences uploaded to eclipse.org, and now I want to download it to my home machine, with Eclipse Oxygen. How can I do that? "Synchronize now" seems to upload instead of…
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Out of memory at Eclipse startup - Oomph Setup UI seems at fault - heap increased to 4G already

Eclipse Neon was freshly unzipped. A blank directory was given to it for workspace. And an Out of memory error gets displayed right after the workspace path query. The details mention "Setup Check". In eclipse.ini we now have -Xms1024m -Xmx4096m…
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Eclipse surrounds auto-generated param names with REMOVE_PREFERENCE_MARKER

Eclipse is surrounding suggestions and auto-generated parameter names with "REMOVE_PREFERENCE_MARKER". Below is an auto-generated method and image showing the suggestions. I have no idea why. @Override public int compareTo(Foo…
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Oomph Installation Error

I want to install Eclipse using setup files, but I get this error: Any ideas?
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Eclipse Neon fails to install

I have just downloaded Eclipse neon 64bit. I've already got jdk8, jre8 installed and configured, I do not have any other versions of Eclipse installed. When I install eclipse it simply fails. Any idea? all I'm doing is installing the…
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How can I control the tab color in the Eclipse Java perspective?

I'm a relative newcomer to Eclipse. Yesterday via the "Check for Updates" menu item, I installed a couple of minor updates. When Eclipse restarted, in the Java perspective, I noticed that the "Package Explorer" tab now had a dark yellow background,…
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Extending an existing product using Eclipse Oomph

I'd like to create a new product for my own usage which extends Eclipse Neon ( or possibly Oxygen ). I know that I can manually add update sites and UIs using Oomph, but I would rather like to define a reference to an existing product - like Eclipse…
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Include files in custom Eclipse with Oomph

I am creating a custom Eclipse distro with Oomph and I would like to add additional directories/files into my installation. Is this possible?
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Where can I find the default Oomph profiles included in the Eclipse installer?

I would like to base my custom Eclipse setup on the Oomph profile for Java EE developers included in the standard Eclipse Installer but I can't seem to find it anywhere in the installer directories.
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How to add target platform to oomph project setup file?

I have a .target file for my project. Now wanted to set the target platform in oomph setup prior to project import. currently following turorial site but doing so getting only this annoying dialog and don't know how to fix this: setup->new Child->…
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How are bundle pools and agents related in Eclipse Oomph?

The bundle pool management screen from Oomph allows to set multiple agents multiple bundle pools Q. What reasons would I have to do (1) and (2)? For example: I would like to have separate "installations", one for php, one for plugin-development…
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Eclipse (Mars 4.5.1) installed with the Eclipse Installer does not recognize new plugin

after copying a plugin to the plugin-folder (C:\Users\myUserName.p2\pool\plugins) eclipse does not show/use this plugin. This is the first time i used the installer for eclipse and i did not expect that you can't copy plugins anymore. Does that mean…
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