The exact OS I'm using is RedHat 6.5 Enterprise, 32 bit. I believe Eclipse was installed using yum.
I have tried multiple URLs to try to install an SVN plugin using Eclipse's Help->Install New Software function, including this one: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.10.x, which I found here: http://subclipse.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=p4wYuA
Eclipse installed the plugin successfully, but whenever I start Eclipse, the plugin is nowhere to be found. I tried starting Eclipse with the -clean option, and that isn't doing anything.
Therefore, from the site I linked above, I downloaded the .zip file of the plugin from here: http://subclipse.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=2240. The exact file I downloaded is site-1.8.22.zip.
I had this same problem in the past with Mercurial where installing from Help->Install New Software didn't work, so I downloaded that jar (for some reason there is only one jar for Mercurial but for SVN there are many plus some directories?). I then put that jar in /usr/share/eclipse/dropins/plugins (I had to create the plugins directory). That worked. However, when I put all of the SVN jars in there, SVN is not showing up in Eclipse. I have tried many different combinations of putting only some jars in there, creating folders, etc. Again, I have been using -clean when starting eclipse, and that's not making a difference. I truly think the plugin isn't being put in the right spot because I can move the Mercurial plugin I have installed in and out, and it shows that correctly in Eclipse each time. For reference, the Mercurial jar I'm using is: com.vectrace.MercurialEclipse_2.1.0.201304290948.jar
I also noticed that /etc/eclipse.ini has this line in it, which should say where to look for plugins: -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/usr/share/eclipse/dropins
So I have some questions:
- Where do I put all of these SVN jars and folders that I downloaded?
- Why does the Mercurial one only have one jar and the SVN have a whole bunch? I'm just curious why the developers would package these completely differently because maybe this means there's a single SVN jar out there that I could use and just have it work.
- I also found a /usr/lib/eclipse folder, and there are also plugin and dropin folders in there. Why are there multiple Eclipse directories for plugins?
