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Can Eclipse Installer be run from command line? [message #1779938]

Mon, 15 January 2018 21:52

Ge Strait

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Registered: September 2017

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We would like to run Eclipse Installer in a continuoes integration environment.

Doing so would require running Eclipse Installer from the command line and specifying all a user would enter in the Eclipse Installer GUI (product catalog, JRE location, installation path...) via some sort of input file or command line parameters.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

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Re: Can Eclipse Installer be run from command line? [message #1779948 is a reply to message #1779938]

Tue, 16 January 2018 05:14

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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It's possible in principle now with the support for Configurations:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Automation_and_Specialization_with_Configurations

This way it's possible to specify the Project Version (and Project Streams) to install as well as to fully specify the values for all prompted variables. What's missing is a headless application to process it. Perhaps someone will be interested in funding/developing that...

This is the topic of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=487626 where there was some effort invested, but not taking the best design approach. I.e., I really don't want something with a large/endless set of command line parameters.

Ed Merks
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Re: Can Eclipse Installer be run from command line? [message #1856512 is a reply to message #1779948]

Tue, 13 December 2022 20:34

Alexey Langer

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Registered: August 2022

Junior Member

For those still looking for an answer:

This task can be solved using the console version of the oomph installer https://github.com/a-langer/eclipse-oomph-console. It allows you to install Eclipse in headless mode (from command line) with a set of required plugins.

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Re: Can Eclipse Installer be run from command line? [message #1857129 is a reply to message #1856512]

Wed, 18 January 2023 23:25

Manuel Malagon

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Registered: December 2011

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Alexey,

Thanks for helping with this. It is what I'm looking for. I just have one question. How can I specify what version to install? I need the 2022-03 but I don't know how to specify it on the command.

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Re: Can Eclipse Installer be run from command line? [message #1857394 is a reply to message #1857129]

Fri, 03 February 2023 13:24

Alexey Langer

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Registered: August 2022

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You can specify a specific version through a colon:

./eclipse-inst -nosplash -application org.eclipse.oomph.console.application -vmargs \
  -Doomph.installation.location="$PWD/ide" \
  -Doomph.product.id="epp.package.java:2022-03"

This information can be found in the instructions https://github.com/a-langer/eclipse-oomph-console.

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