Run Eclipse with .setup files after installation

[Claryn]

Hi.

I received two custom .setup files for my Eclipse installation from my lecturer in Java. What they are supposed to do is give me the necessary plugins to Eclipse that I need, and two premade projects that I get from the lecturers git repository. I am unsure exactly what does what, but these are the two files:

Resource URLs:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hallvard/jexercise/master/no.hal.learning/TDT4100.setup

GitHub projects:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hallvard/jexercise/master/no.hal.learning/TDT4100-ovinger.setup

 

Now, I installed everything using the universities guide

https://www.ntnu.no/wiki/display/tdt4100/Installasjon+av+Eclipse (It is in Norwegian, but you can see the process with the pictures on the site)

I missed out on the part that I simply could link to the URL of the .setup files. Instead, I created new .setup files in my ~/ directory and used them, since I thought I only needed them for initial installation.

 

The setup worked perfectly. I could pull updates in the two GitHub projects using Git in Eclipse.

However, I wanted to change my workspace directory, so I simply moved the eclipse folder (including the workspace) to another folder. It still worked good, I just opened the duplicated workspace when I launched Eclipse for the first time.

 

Now, I cleaned up my ~/ directory, where I deleted the .setup files and the original workspace and installation folder. What I didnt know is that the files and directory are both required to have the GitHub projects work correctly.

 

What I need now is to simply replace the old paths to the .setup files, and have Eclipse redownload the files that I deleted from the original installation directory (I believe there was a git folder with the projects in them, and another folder I cant remember what was).

Basically, I want to run the custom installation I did in the guide linked over, but without a clean install of eclipse

 

TLDR: Deleted original directory and custom .setup files , so eclipse cant open git projects that was automatically downloaded with .setup files. Need to replace the missing files with the two URLs containing the .setup files above.

 

Thank you.

 

[Claryn]

All I had to do was this: http://help.eclipse.org/neon/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2FgettingStarted%2Fqs-43e.htm

 

Problem solved!

 

EDIT: I just had to import the projects from the GitHub link that I managed to fish out of the .setup files that did it automatically.