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Andrei Ivanov
Asked: 2014-01-08 12:14:45 +0800 CST

Unistall Eclipse installed in /opt

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I need Java Eclipse, but accidentally installed the C++ one using the steps from here Installing Eclipse Kepler

How do I actually remove the C++ one completely? I tried just removing the files from /opt ,removing the symbolic link and installing the Java over but the C++ still comes up when i call eclipse?

Any help? Thanks

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2 Answers

  1. I tried multiple methods none of which removed the eclipse installation in /opt. So finally I manually removed the folder

    aniket@aniket-Compaq-610:~$ cd /opt
aniket@aniket-Compaq-610:/opt$ sudo rm -rf eclipse

    Doing this will uninstall eclipse. But it will still appear in the unity search. To remove it from search as well delete eclipse.desktop file from /usr/share/applications

    aniket@aniket-Compaq-610:~$ cd /usr/share/applications/
aniket@aniket-Compaq-610:/usr/share/applications$ sudo rm eclipse.desktop

    If you want to remove your existing eclipse settings execute

    rm -rf ~/.eclipse/
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  2. You can uninstall Eclipse features in Eclipse. Open the Help > About Eclipse dialog and click the Installation Details button. This will show you all the components you have installed. Select the one you want to remove and click Uninstall.

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