Need help installing the MercurialEclipse plugin on an offline machine

Question

MercurialEclipse' homepage has links to an update site and, indirectly, to downloadable archives. I can't use the update site since my machine is not connected to the Internet, so I'm downloading the archive on a connected machine and copying it to the target machine.

But now - what do I do?

• Putting the JAR file (com.vectrace.MercurialEclipse_2.1.0.201304290948.jar ) in the 'dropins/' folder has no effect.
• Putting the JAR file in the 'plugins/' folder also has no effect
• Eclipse will not treat the archive as an update site (using Install New Software | Add)

So how do I install this thing?

Answer 1

These steps are untested but they should replicate the update site on your local file system:

1. Clone this repository: https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/mercurialeclipse.wiki/
2. Download the stable plugin jar file from the downloads section and place it in update_site/stable/plugins
3. Edit update_site/stable/site.xml and remove all the <archive ..> elements.