Where Does Eclipse Install Linux?
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Where does eclipse install software?

plugins or wherever your workspace resides. As far as I know, Eclipse stores its plugins in its installation directory ( eclipse ). They might reside in eclipse/plugins or eclipse/dropins . You can copy the whole eclipse directory from your old box.

Where does eclipse get installed in Ubuntu?

If you are compiling Eclipse yourself, /usr/local would be the correct place. “/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin?” /usr/bin is intended for software provided by your distribution. If you are building Eclipse yourself, the installation prefix should be set to /usr/local .

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