Correct way to remove plugin from Eclipse

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Last times  I m facing problem of removing plugins from Eclipse   symptoms   1  if removing thru already installed menu that can t reinstall correctly and have several perspectives - e g  for SQL Explorer   in Open Perspective menu   2  if removing thru file system - manually from plugins directory that I m not certain about what  jars should I remove  The question is  what are the steps that guarantee correct full removing of plugin and what is better  manual or automatic removing   Share please your experience

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Using the menus  open  Help   About Eclipse IDE   Installation details  in newer versions   Help   Installation Details  in older versions   or Help   About Eclipse   Installation details  in even older versions    In the  quot Installed software quot  tab click on the software that you wish to uninstall  then click the  quot Uninstall    quot  button below  If you installed the plug-in by dropping into the dropins folder  then just delete it from the dropins folder and restart Eclipse  See the answer of  Cogentleman for more recent versions of Eclipse

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For some  Eclipse Marketplace  plugins Uninstall may not work   Ex  SonarLint v5   So Try   Help - gt  About Eclipse - gt  Installation details    search the plugin name in  Installed Software  Select plugin name and Uninstall it    Additional Detail  To fix plugin errors  after the uninstall revert back  older version of plugin   Help - gt  install new software      Get plugin url from Google search and Add it    Example  https   eclipse-uc sonarlint org  Select and install older versions of the Plugin    This will fix most of  the plugin problems

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Eclipse Photon user here  found it under the toolbar s Windows   Preferences   Install Update    Uninstall or update  link   Click stuff and hit the  Uninstall  button

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Help --  About Eclipse --  Installation Details --  select whatever you want to uninstall from  Installed Software  tab

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I m using Eclipse Kepler release   There is no Installation Details or About Eclipse menu item under help   For me  it was Help   Eclipse Marketplace     I had to click on the  Installed  tab  The plug-in I wanted to remove was listed there  with an  Uninstall  option

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Inspired by sergionni s answer  I ended up doing the following steps   Help -- gt  Installation Details -- gt  Installation History tab  In the Previous configurations table  you can select a configuration and see in the Configuration contents exactly which plugins were installed and are included in it   It s easy to find the configuration that contains the plugin you want to remove  using the Compare button  This button is enabled when two configurations are selected   After tracking the configuration that s responsible for that plugin  select the previous configuration and press the Revert button   Note that if you revert to a configuration that isn t the one just right before the Current Installation  it causes any other plugins that were installed since  to be uninstalled as well

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Correct way to remove install plug-in from Eclipse STS    Go to install folder of eclipse ----  plugin --  select required plugin and remove it   Ex-   Step 1   E  springsource sts-3 4 0 RELEASE plugins  Step 2   select and remove related plugins jars

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I would like to propose my solution that worked for me   It s reverting Eclipse and its plugins versions  to the version just before the plugin was installed

[eclipse-plugin] Correct way to remove plugin from Eclipse

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