How to fully delete Subclipse plugin?

Question

I am having trouble getting rid of Subclipse from my Eclipse configuration.

I made the decision to switch to Subversive due to the m2eclipse project dropping support for Subclipse.

So I uninstalled Subclipse and then installed Subversive using the About Eclipse -> Installation Details -> Uninstall method. Now, when I go to any Team related options/tasks/preferences there are two SVN options available (one for Subversive and one for Subclipse) making life confusing.

Having grepped the workspace .metadata folder for the string subclipse I can see that the configuration is still littered with references to Subclipse:

$ grep -lir "subclipse" .metadata/
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.workbench.prefs
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.team.ui.prefs
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.debug.ui.prefs
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload17.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload23.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload21.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload19.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/usagedata.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload22.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload14.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload13.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload20.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload18.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload16.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload15.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.ui/dialog_settings.xml
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.ui/syncParticipants.xml
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/-213569165961.target/.lazy
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/-213569165961.target/.state
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/-213569165961.target/.pluginInfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/jxse-tutorials/.syncinfo.snap
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/jxse-tutorials/.indexes/properties.index
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/BA_NAT_Traversal/.syncinfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/barchart-udt/.syncinfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/barchart-udt/.indexes/properties.index
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/netty-benchmark/.syncinfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/netty-benchmark/.indexes/properties.index
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/jxta/.syncinfo.snap
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/73.tree
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.snap
.metadata/.bak_0.log

All of the projects above are now disconnected from SVN. Obviously some of the references such as usagedata are not important, I am more worried about the XML files though. Is it safe to manually go through and delete all tags/properties related to Subclipse? I feel that approach may be unwise though.

Does anyone know of a way to eliminate all traces of Subclipse without losing my workspace? Also any tips on what I might have done wrong? Should I have manually disconnected all of my SVN projects before making the switch to Subversive?

Grendel

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem. The reason is when you uninstall via eclipse, it doesn't delete the jar files from the plugin folder, the steps I did.

Go to folder eclipse/plugins for avoiding any potential damage (just deleting wrong jars and get errors in other apps) list the jars from subclipse.

$ cd eclipse/plugins
$ ls |grep org.tigris.subversion

and then if it lists the following

$ ls |grep org.tigris.subversion
org.tigris.subversion.clientadapter_1.6.12.jar         org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.doc_1.3.0.jar    org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.tools.usage_1.0.1.jar
org.tigris.subversion.clientadapter.javahl_1.6.15.jar  org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.graph_1.0.9.jar  org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui_1.6.17.jar
org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.core_1.6.17.jar        org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.mylyn_3.0.0.jar

Remove them by piping xargs rm to the command

$ ls |grep org.tigris.subversion|xargs rm

Restart your eclipse and you'll only see the correct svn version.

PS: the .metadata you display comes from the workspace, it only affects to the projects you got from svn, it won't do any change in eclipse.

Cassity

great thanks so much for this. 30 seconds later, the problem has gone! I am reverting the question title to reflect that this was not related to the XML in .metadat. I really must get to know my tools better... ;-) – Grendel

I found that sometimes its necessary to also delete the folders from Eclipse's feature folder. – Rokach

litle tip: ls |grep org.tigris.subversion|xargs rm -rf – Photopia

I don't use -rf when using xargs, you may end up removing things that you shouldn't, but it's me. Still the -rf can be done – Cassity

See Uninstalling and Deleting plug-ins from eclipse. I am not sure manually deleting jars out of the plugins/ folder is a very good idea. After I did this I was unable to install new software until I removed references to the deleted jars in my artifacts.xml file. – Gingersnap

Hi @JoelCarranza my feedback is more like a last resort if the normal uninstall fails to remove the jar files. – Cassity

I removed these, plus I also did the same thing in the "features" folder. Also I deleted the plugins/features that start with "org.tmatesoft.svnkit". Then I added the update URL and installed Subclipse again. It gave me an error, saying Subclipse is already installed. I had to reinstall Eclipse. – Cowans