8.4.1. Eclipse Plugin Installation

8.4.1.1. Installing Axivion Eclipse Plugin without Internet access

First, try to uncheck Contact all update sites option in the Install New Software... / Install (Available Software) dialog.

If the solution above does not work, you can try a second way. But this way is definitely not recommended: Download the plugin jar files from the dashboard. Copy the jars into <eclipse_installation_dir>/dropins. This way of installing the Axivion Eclipse Plugin will likely cause trouble when updating the plugin.

Be aware that you might be able to circumvent the dependency check on installation but Eclipse will silently not load the plugin when the dependencies are not met.

8.4.1.2. Spot your version of Eclipse

Eclipse may be branded in a way that Eclipse’s version is not obvious.

The version can be found in the Features list:

• Help

• (About Eclipse)

• Installation Details

• Features

• • Provider: Eclipse.org

  • Feature Name: Eclipse Platform

  • Version: this is what we are looking for

  • Feature id: org.eclipse.platform

The mapping between the version number and the codename can be found at Wikipedia:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28software%29#Releases

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28IDE%29#Versionen

8.4.1.3. Internal Browser does not work: mozilla not supported with GTK 3 as XULRunner is not ported for GTK 3 yet

As workaround you can try to switch to WebKit:

• sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 (Ubuntu 16.04)

• It may be necessary to add the following lines to eclipse.ini (after the line -vmargs):

  • -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=webkit

  • -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true