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Uninstalling the Eclipse Plugin

Use the following procedure to uninstall the Eclipse plugin.

To uninstall the Eclipse plugin, do the following:

  1. Open Eclipse, and select Help | About Eclipse.
  2. In the About Eclipse window, click Installation Details.
  3. In the Eclipse Installation Details window, select Code Insight Scan Plugin, and click Uninstall.... The Uninstall window is displayed, listing the plugin.
  4. Click Finish to confirm that you want to uninstall the plugin and to start the process.
  5. Restart Eclipse when prompted to do so.
  6. Navigate to the plugins folder in Eclipse (under either eclipse-home``/plugins or userhome``/.p2/pool/plugins); and remove the code-insight-eclipse-scan_X.0.0 folder.
  7. Navigate to and open the artifacts.xml file in Eclipse (under either eclipse-home``/artifacts.xml or userhome``/.p2/pool/artifacts.xml), and remove the codeinsight-Eclipse-scan and flexNet.code.insight.scan.plugin sections from the file.
  8. Navigate to the features folder in Eclipse (under either userhome``/.p2/pool or eclipse-home), and remove the flexNet.code.insight.scan.plugin_X.0.0 folder (if it exists).