How do you automate the installation of Eclipse plugins with command line?

I need to automate Installation of Eclipse Classic and add two "plugins" :

• CDT (not sure this can be called a "plugin")
• PyDev

Install Eclipse Classic (just downloaded) :

sudo tar -xvzf eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk.tar.gz -开发者_开发问答C /usr/local/

How to install then CDT and PyDev as system plugins (not user's)?

I could find these two docs which helped :

• http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Frunning_eclipse.htm
• http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_director.html

Install freshly downloaded Eclipse Classic :

sudo tar -xvzf eclipse-SDK-3.7-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

To install desired CDT features (references found by using Eclipse's "Help>Install new software" tool)

• C/C++ Development Tools ( org.eclipse.cdt.feature.group )
• C/C++ Development Tools SDK ( org.eclipse.cdt.sdk.feature.group )
• C/C++ Development Platform ( org.eclipse.cdt.platform.feature.group )
• C/C++ Memory View Enhancements ( org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui.memory.feature.group )
• Eclipse Debugger for C/C++ ( org.eclipse.cdt.debug.edc.feature.group )
• Miscellaneous C/C++ Utilities ( org.eclipse.cdt.util.feature.group )

run :

sudo /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -nosplash \
  -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
  -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/,http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/helios/ \
  -destination /usr/local/eclipse \
  -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.feature.group \
  -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.sdk.feature.group \
  -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.platform.feature.group \
  -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui.memory.feature.group \
  -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.debug.edc.feature.group \
  -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.util.feature.group

To install PyDev, we first need to insert their auto-signed certificate (which can be found here : http://pydev.org/pydev_certificate.cer )

#!/usr/bin/env python
# add PyDev's certificate to Java's key and certificate database
# Certificate file can be downloaded here : http://pydev.org/pydev_certificate.cer
import os, sys
import pexpect

print "Adding pydev_certificate.cer to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts"

cwd = os.path.abspath (os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
child = pexpect.spawn("keytool -import -file ./pydev_certificate.cer -keystore /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts")
child.expect("Enter keystore password:")
child.sendline("changeit")
if child.expect(["Trust this certificate?", "already exists"]) == 0:
    child.sendline("yes")
try:
    child.interact()
except OSError:
    pass

print "done"

so run it :

sudo ./add_pydev_certificate.py

The desired PyDev features are :

• PyDev for Eclipse ( org.python.pydev.feature.feature.group )

run :

sudo /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -nosplash \
  -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
  -repository http://pydev.org/updates/ \
  -destination /usr/local/eclipse \
  -installIU org.python.pydev.feature.feature.group

This is a late answer but you might want to check out copying the feature and plugin directory of your repository to a folder called dropins located under the main eclipse folder. This works as of Helios and later. More information can be found at this link.

You may add CDT and PyDev manually, from GUI, into your current Eclipse installation. Then pack them altogether into one archive & unpack on target system(s).