Uninstalling Google Eclipse Plugin

[bkbonner]

trying to uninstall Google Eclipse Plugin from STS 2.3.0 results in error. I'm specifically trying to uninstall the Google App Engine code.

Any ideas?

I'm running Windows Vista.




Here's the error log

eclipse.buildId=M20090917-0800
java.version=1.6.0_11
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments: -product com.springsource.sts.ide
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -product com.springsource.sts.ide


Error
Thu Mar 04 20:12:24 EST 2010
An error occurred while uninstalling



Error
Thu Mar 04 20:12:24 EST 2010
Backup of file C:\Program Files\springsource\sts-2.2.1.RELEASE\epl-v10.html failed.

java.io.IOException: File that was copied to backup could not be deleted: C:\Program Files\springsource\sts-2.2.1.RELEASE\epl-v10.html
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives .BackupStore.backup(BackupStore.java:258)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives .LazyBackupStore.backup(LazyBackupStore.java:36)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives .actions.CleanupzipAction.cleanupzip(CleanupzipAct ion.java:86)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives .actions.CleanupzipAction.execute(CleanupzipAction .java:30)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.Parameteriz edProvisioningAction.execute(ParameterizedProvisio ningAction.java:35)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine .Phase.mainPerform(Phase.java:129)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine .Phase.perform(Phase.java:72)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine .PhaseSet.perform(PhaseSet.java:44)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine .Engine.perform(Engine.java:54)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.ope rations.ProvisioningUtil.performProvisioningPlan(P rovisioningUtil.java:389)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.ope rations.ProfileModificationOperation.doExecute(Pro fileModificationOperation.java:61)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.ope rations.ProvisioningOperation.execute(Provisioning Operation.java:37)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.Pro visioningOperationRunner$1.run(ProvisioningOperati onRunner.java:94)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.j ava:55)


Error
Thu Mar 04 20:12:24 EST 2010
session context wasprofile=com.springsource.sts.ide, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2. engine.phases.Uninstall, operand=[R]org.eclipse.cvs_root 1.1.101.R35x_v20090811-7E79FEd9KKF5H2YDWFLLBL01A16 --> null, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint. natives.actions.CleanupzipAction).

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi bkbonner,

unfortunately you're hitting a known issue in Eclipse P2, aka the update mechanism, when installing STS or Eclipse into multi-user protected directories like "C:\Program Files".

The only way to solve this to re-install STS into a directory other then "C:\Program Files".

Sorry for this inconvenience. In the upcoming version of STS, the installer will not suggest installing into "C:\Program Files" any longer.

Christian