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Uninstall the older version of cucumber eclipse plugin

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George S. Cowan edited this page Feb 9, 2018 · 6 revisions

Uninstall the older version of cucumber-eclipse plugin :

  • To use the latest features of this plugin you must have to uninstall the older version of cucumber-eclipse plugin for your Eclipse.
  • To uninstall cucumber-eclipse feature , Open Eclipse-IDE, Close all feature files opened in editor. -- Run Help > About Eclipse > Installation Details, -- Select the Cucumber Eclipse Feature -- Click Delete.
  • If any multiple Cucumber Eclipse Features with different versions available also Uninstall all.
  • As there is no mechanism within Eclipse to permanently and physically uninstall a feature and its plug-ins, you will have to manually remove the files associated with the cucumber-eclipse features and plugin when Eclipse is not running.

Warning Note: Be very cautious as to which files you delete, and always have a backup of your Eclipse directory. If you remove the wrong files from these directories, you may have quite some trouble restoring your Eclipse to a stable state. Therefore, unless your hard disk storage capacity is extraordinarily limited, it is recommended that you simply leave the physical files in place.

In the following, the eclipse/features and eclipse/plugins directories are no longer located in exactly those places. One option is to use your operating system's facilities to find all files with names that contain cucumber.eclipse. The underscore character _ is used to stand in for all the versioning characters in the file names.

  • From your eclipse/features directory: -- Delete if any existing cucumber-eclipse feature directory named as cucumber.eclipse.feature_.

  • From your eclipse/plugins directory, Delete the cucumber-eclipse plug-in jars named as: -- cucumber.eclipse.editor_.jar, -- cucumber.eclipse.steps.integration_.jar, -- cucumber.eclipse.steps.jdt_.jar

  • Now start Eclipse again and remove the existing cucumber-eclipse plugin site url : -- Run Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites, -- Select name/location of Cucumber-Plugin and Click Remove,

  • Click Ok.

  • Now Restart your eclipse.

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