A simple script to batch install a bunch of additional features into an existing Eclipse or STS installation. Customize to your needs in the "installFeatures()" part. First parameter there is list of feature IDs, second is the list of update sites to install those features from. Run this via: ./install-addons.sh <relative-path-to-your-sts/eclips…

install-addons.sh

#!/bin/bash
#set -x

doInstall() {
  ECLIPSELOCATION=`ls $LOCATION/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*`
	$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar $ECLIPSELOCATION -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
   		-metadataRepository "$2" \
   		-artifactRepository "$2" \
   		-destination $LOCATION \
   		-installIU "$1"
}

installFeatures() {
	doInstall "org.cloudfoundry.ide.eclipse.server.feature.group,\
		net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.feature.group,\
		com.yourkit.profiler.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.forms.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.eclipse.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.eclipse.gef.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.ide.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.eclipse.test.junit3.feature.group,\
		org.eclipse.swtbot.eclipse.test.junit4.feature.group" \
		"http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.8/,\
		http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno/,\
		http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse/,\
		http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/cloudfoundry,\
		http://www.yourkit.com/download/yourkit12_for_eclipse/,\
		http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/helios/dev-build/update-site"
}

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_17.jdk/Contents/Home
export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true
cd $1
LOCATION=`pwd`

installFeatures

This looks promising, but is there a similar possibility to find the local installations and their repositories also? I usually install a lot of plugins over time via the marketplace but can hardly remember anything after a while ...

@ascheman Sorry for not having seen your question until now (no idea how that could have happened), apologize.

The easiest way is to look into the installation details of your IDE, there you can find the feature IDs of all the things that you have installed. The corresponding update site URLs can then be found in the preferences (Available Update Sites), but you can't see directly which update site belongs to which feature. But usually it is possible to have a good guess here. At least this is the way that I am aware of.

If you want to take a look into the update site content behind those URLs, there is a repository explorer view in Eclipse that you could use for that.

Hope that helps and sorry again for the super late reply.

Thanks for the late but long response, @martinlippert. To be honest, I had long forgotten about my request. As I am mostly using IntelliJ for many years meanwhile, it is unfortunately not helpful any longer to me personally. But other users may benefit from this information.