Eclipse Plugin Installation

Finding and Installing Plugins

Eclipse, as an integrated IDE development tool, provides convenience for our software development. Besides its powerful built-in features, Eclipse also supports a wide range of functional plugins.

We can find and download the plugins we need through the Eclipse official marketplace (https://marketplace.eclipse.org/).

For example, we can search for plugins that support Python IDE, as shown in the following image:

In the Eclipse IDE, we can also find plugins by clicking the Eclipse Marketplace option under the Help menu:

In the above image, we select PyDev to enable Python development in Eclipse. We simply need to click the Install button. The following dialog box shows the selected plugins for installation.

You can also install plugins by clicking the Install New Software menu item under the Help menu:

With this method, we need to know the remote installation address of the plugin. You can submit the URL by clicking the Add button.

The installation dialog lists the remote installable plugins: