Eclipse Marketplace plug-ins silent install

Question

I'm trying to establish a Ubuntu dev workstation in a VM that will serve as the base VM image for our team. There are several Eclipse plugin we use for our development, I would like to script their install, and I would like to install from Marketplace. Is that something achievable on Ubuntu? How would I lookup and reference the plugin, and then how would I initiate the install? Or should I consider a different approach entirely? Thanks!

Answer 1

torkildr has described a way to retrieve the repository URL and feature name from the Marketplace API.

Given a Marketplace install URL ( https://marketplace.eclipse.org/marketplace-client-intro?mpc_install={ID} ), construct the API URL as https://marketplace.eclipse.org/node/{ID}/api/p . Retrieve the XML file from that URL and look for the repository URL in the updateURL tag, and the available features in the ius tag. You'll need to append .feature.group to each IU feature listed, so the final command to install one of the listed features is:

./eclipse -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository {repository URL} -installIU {iu}.feature.group

Answer 2

If you can determine the Update Site and feature names from an existing install (the About dialog's Installation Details will show you the Feature IDs), you can drive the process headlessly via the P2 Director . For example, to tell it to install the MarketPlace Client itself:

./eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen -installIU org.eclipse.epp.mpc.feature.group -nosplash

As far as I can tell, the MarketPlace Client does not contribute an extension to org.eclipse.core.runtime.applications , so you can't call it from the command line.