Eclipse plugin: "Uninstall" button is disabled, unable to upgrade

[Jaroslav Záruba]

Hello

I just can't remove GEP from Eclipse 3.5, the "Uninstall" button is
disabled. (Actually the button remains disabled for ALL the installed
software, hence I'm suspecting Eclipse here rather than GWT.)
Even when I remove all the folders and files that have "com.google" in
their name Eclipse still thinks the Google stuff is installed (I can
see it in the "Installed Software" list), therefore it won't let me
update it to GWT 2.0.

Any hints pwetty please? :(

It seems like with every new feature released I eventually end up
reinstalling the Eclipse because the update process somehow fails. :(
And yet I still love Eclipse. :)

Best regards
Jarda Z.

[Jeff Chimene]

Assuming you're on some Linux distro (you don't say in the  OP) This is a problem w/ libgtk 2.0 I downgraded to 1.12(?). I'm running Debian testing/unstable, so I downgraded to the version in stable. This may or may not be possible for you.

2009/12/21 Jaroslav Záruba <jarosla...@gmail.com>

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[Jaroslav Záruba]

I'm sorry I have omitted that, I'm on Windows Vista64.

I wish I knew where Eclipse reads the list of installed features from.

On Dec 21, 4:07 pm, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assuming you're on some Linux distro (you don't say in the  OP) This is a
> problem w/ libgtk 2.0 I downgraded to 1.12(?). I'm running Debian
> testing/unstable, so I downgraded to the version in stable. This may or may
> not be possible for you.
>

> 2009/12/21 Jaroslav Záruba <jaroslav.zar...@gmail.com>

>
> > Hello
>
> > I just can't remove GEP from Eclipse 3.5, the "Uninstall" button is
> > disabled. (Actually the button remains disabled for ALL the installed
> > software, hence I'm suspecting Eclipse here rather than GWT.)
> > Even when I remove all the folders and files that have "com.google" in
> > their name Eclipse still thinks the Google stuff is installed (I can
> > see it in the "Installed Software" list), therefore it won't let me
> > update it to GWT 2.0.
>
> > Any hints pwetty please? :(
>
> > It seems like with every new feature released I eventually end up
> > reinstalling the Eclipse because the update process somehow fails. :(
> > And yet I still love Eclipse. :)
>
> > Best regards
> >  Jarda Z.
>
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[Jason Parekh]

Hi Jaroslav,

It sounds like you're wanting to uninstall so you can install a newer
version. If this is the case, the good news is you don't have to
uninstall to upgrade :) The bad news is that since you've deleted the
"com.google" files manually, Eclipse is probably in an inconsistent
state.

Looking at http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.pde/msg02048.html
, it sounds like you cannot uninstall plugins that have other plugins
depending on them. For the Google plugin, the com.google...sdkbundle
plugins depend on the main com.google.gdt... plugins. Could you first
try uninstalling those com.google...sdkbundle plugins?

Also, when you installed Eclipse, was it installed as Administrator?

jason

2009/12/21 Jaroslav Záruba <jarosla...@gmail.com>:

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[Jaroslav Záruba]

The buttons were disabled before I started "cleaning" the files. (And
they were disabled not only for all Google-related features but for
all nistalled software.)
I tried to uninstall correctly everything Google-related; but Eclipse
only did let me to remove entries under Window -> Preferences ->
Google -> AppEngine (AppEngine 1.?) and GWT SDK (GWT SDK 1.7.). That
did not help. :(
Only then I started to delete files and folder from Eclipse and
workspace directory structure.

Yes, I did install Eclipse frmo within an admin account.
Maybe this has something to do with that ****** MS UAC crap that I
have turned on a month ago. (Way after the Eclipse install.)

On Dec 21, 5:21 pm, Jason Parekh <jasonpar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jaroslav,
>
> It sounds like you're wanting to uninstall so you can install a newer
> version.  If this is the case, the good news is you don't have to
> uninstall to upgrade :)  The bad news is that since you've deleted the
> "com.google" files manually, Eclipse is probably in an inconsistent
> state.
>

> Looking athttp://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.pde/msg02048.html

> , it sounds like you cannot uninstall plugins that have other plugins
> depending on them.  For the Google plugin, the com.google...sdkbundle
> plugins depend on the main com.google.gdt... plugins.  Could you first
> try uninstalling those com.google...sdkbundle plugins?
>
> Also, when you installed Eclipse, was it installed as Administrator?
>
> jason
>

> 2009/12/21 Jaroslav Záruba <jaroslav.zar...@gmail.com>: