
Start Eclipse with “Run as administrator…”. Upgrades may require administrator privileges to succeed and may fail with error messages claiming “Only one of the following can be installed:” otherwise. Download a new build from the Eclipse download Web site Eclipse Download and unzip it in a new directory. Complete upgrade instructions are always included in the Eclipse readme_eclipse.html file included with every build in the readme directory. In these cases you will need to download a fresh install. Occasionally you won’t be able to upgrade Eclipse or certain features due to incompatible changes in the update technology. The Eclipse Project Updates URL changes with each release (typically release-specific sites hold the SDK/Source features and off-cycle hot fixes and are not required)

A restart may not be required when updating other features, but always select to restart if you are unsure. Check your Available Software Sites for release-specific update sites that may need updating as well, e.g.

Here you can choose the items which you want to update. If upgrading the platform itself, when you are prompted to restart it is strongly recommended to do so. To check for updates go to Help => Check For Updates. Click OKĮclipse provides the facility to check for any updates for the existing features and install those updates.

You should not store your workspace inside the Eclipse install directory, because that will make it more difficult to upgrade to a newer version of Eclipse. Unless you have an existing workspace from a previous Eclipse version, you can keep this default or choose some other location. The default location provided by this dialog will be a “workspace” child of your home directory This dialog appears on first startup in the absence of a -data argument.

The workspace chooser dialog allows you to choose the location of your workspace.
