I believe it is: /usr/share/eclipse/plugins for your particular fedora box.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:45 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Eclipse plugins
How should one install Eclipse plugins in FC4 so that they are available system-wide?
TIA.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I believe it is: /usr/share/eclipse/plugins for your particular fedora box.
Thanks. I found that. I also found that you can specify other places, so I decided to use /usr/local/share/eclipse for plugins that aren't installed via RPM.
My question was really more along the lines of:
The Subclipse plugin instructions say you don't need to download anything, just do the install in Eclipse. But if I do that as a normal user, how can I install in a location owned by root and not world writable? Would I get prompted for a password or something?
I worked around the issue by starting Eclipse as root and doing the install there. It appears to load fine as a normal user, but I haven't tested it yet. The only odd thing was, when I created the directory in the GNOME file browser it got permissions of 754, and I had to fix that by hand.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:45 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Eclipse plugins
How should one install Eclipse plugins in FC4 so that they are available system-wide?
TIA.
* Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu [2005-10-29 21:10]:
The Subclipse plugin instructions say you don't need to download anything, just do the install in Eclipse. But if I do that as a normal user, how can I install in a location owned by root and not world writable? Would I get prompted for a password or something?
We've got a patch that will hopefully go in 3.2 upstream that defaults to ~/.eclipse if you're not a superuser. There isn't a way to use the update manager as a regular user but install things where root can write. This is probably something that should be bugzilla'd. ie. have something like "Do you want to install this plugin for all users on the system?" -> pam/whatever prompt; otherwise, install to ~/.eclipse . If you add a bugzilla entry upstream, CC me please.
I worked around the issue by starting Eclipse as root and doing the install there.
This isn't really recommended until all the kinks get worked out with https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90535 . However, it will *probably* work just fine :)
Thanks,
Andrew